The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.
President Obama is holding a summit to discuss the next steps in his year-old Precision Medicine Initiative, laying the groundwork for long-term research that administration officials hope will continue after he leaves office.
The new measures include a pilot program investigating how to recruit participants, draft security provisions for the medical data that will be collected, and an expansion of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Million Veteran Program to collect medical data from active-duty military personnel, administration officials said in a call with reporters.
Obama’s involvement shows that he “cares a lot about this topic and this initiative,” said John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The broad participation in the summit, which will feature 170 people from government agencies, private research institutions, and patient groups, shows that “this is an all-hands-on-deck operation,” he said.
Share this article
Obama announced the Precision Medicine Initiative last year to accelerate research into treatments tailored to individual patients. He’s asking Congress for $309 million for the initiative next year, an increase of more than $100 million over this year’s spending.
Read full, original post: Obama pushes precision medicine research, with help from Google
