The College of Education - Qurna (Department of Life Sciences) at the University of Basra, in cooperation with the Continuing Education Unit, organized a scientific symposium on pharmacogenetics. The symposium was lectured by Prof. Hasna Amer is obsessed.

The symposium aimed to clarify the concept of pharmaceutical genetics (pharmacogenetics), which refers to the role of the genetic content of an organism in its drug response. It has been found that the metabolism of drugs may vary greatly between individuals at times. A certain drug may have a beneficial effect in most individuals while it does not affect others, and in a third group side effects appear. The variation may reach the point of difference in the substance of the drug content, as it turns from a means of recovery into a means of death.
The symposium included talk about the variation in drug metabolism through a group of enzymes known as Cyp450, which are responsible for the metabolism of about 90% of drugs. Many types of these enzymes were also found, which originate in a hereditary (genetic) origin. Their effectiveness in treating the drug varies, and these differences between individuals appear in the drug response to certain types of drugs. A number of drugs and treatments have been registered by the American Food and Drug Administration and have had an anti-inflammatory effect. The degree to which it causes diseases and, in certain cases, may cause death.

In this symposium, the doctor said: The presence of these conditions costs the health system financial losses in addition to the loss of lives annually, and therefore research is directed to paying attention to what is called personal medicine, in which medicine is given based on the genetic makeup of individuals.