Personalised medicine is a newly emerging field representing a novel approach in research and healthcare with much to offer in predicting health risks and improving treatment options.

Common meaning of personalised medicine is the application of molecular-biological knowledge in diagnosis and treatment of diseases. However, the wider implication of personalised medicine also includes all the methods and knowledge in medicine that lead to individualised approach and treatment of the particular patient, but not a disease only.

Personalised medicine takes into account individual’s factors that determine uniqueness of a disease in the particular person, and account the probability of getting the disease, the course and outcome of the disease for every individual.

Careful studies of risk factors and clinical course of diseases as well as better understanding of their variability and complex interactions would facilitate development of prevention and treatment strategies for people and, therefore, deliver improved health outcomes and reduce burden of diseases.