Precision medicine: Tailoring therapeutics through advanced modeling strategies

Abstract

Precision medicine is an advanced approach towards developing new therapies to properly understand the cause of disease for providing better treatment and prevention. Each affected individual can be treated better through data-based decision-making approach. Mapping clinical history of the patient to take appropriate action regarding selection of drug, dosage, administration time, and other actions involving statistical research for treatment and care is possible due to personalized medication. It is the transition from treating disease based on symptoms and diagnosis to a method targeting disease prior to its occurrence, providing better cure if it cannot be avoided. Precision medicine provides improved patient outcomes through artificial intelligence, optimized use of tools and medicines, omics, social and environmental factors along with population and preventive medicine. Patient's genotypic and phenotypic data is maintained through biomarkers, laboratory, and radiological testings. This chapter will explain the importance of precision medicine and provide different strategies to deliver it in practice. © 2026 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.