NIH awards $55 million to build million-person precision medicine study

The National Institutes of Health has announced $55 million in awards in 2016 to help launch the Cohort Program of President Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI). The Cohort Program is a long-term research effort to improve disease prevention and treatment in at least 1 million U.S. participants based on individual differences in lifestyle, environment and genetics.
Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights - Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news