With Recruits Coming, Precision Med Effort Pledges $142M For Biobank
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With Recruits Coming, Precision Med Effort Pledges $142M For Biobank Xconomy National — The Obama administration’s ambitious long-term health study, dubbed the Precision Medicine Initiative, has tapped the Mayo Clinic to build a repository for biological samples collected from the study’s participants.“We want it to be actively used” by researchers at Mayo and beyond, she said during remarks at this week’s Big Data in Biomedicine conference at Stanford University.One of those studies is being run by Duke University and was put together originally by Robert Califf, who was confirmed earlier this year as FDA commissioner and also spoke at the Stanford conference.The easiest data to collect at first, Hudson said, will come not from physical exams, genome sequencing, and other medical tests, but from participants answering questions on their phones about lifestyle, diet, social interactions, and the like.“We’d love to work with the initiative, and we’ve applied for several grants,” 23andMe chief science officer Richard Scheller said at the Stanford conference Wednesday, “but none have been funded.
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