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Michelle Whirl-Carrillo, Director and Co-PI

Study of Reimbursement of Preemptive Pharmacogenetic Testing by Health Insurance Payers

Researchers from the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have taken on one of the crucial barriers remaining in the movement of pharmacogenetic testing to the clinic--coverage and reimbursement of the preemptive pharmacogenetic testing by health insurance payers. The results appeared recently online

PharmVar Launches Website

The Cytochrome P450 (CYP) Allele Nomenclature Database has transitioned to the Pharmacogene Variation Consortium at www.PharmVar.org. Please check out the PharmVar website!

Welcome to the new PharmGKB website!

We have just launched our new and improved user interface for PharmGKB! The new website offers benefits such as a display that works on mobile and small screen devices, improved searching and filtering capabilities and faster page load speeds. While the look of PharmGKB has changed, all the content that

Announcing PharmVar

PharmVar will be taking over the allele designations for the cytochrome P450 genes from the Human Cytochrome P450 (CYP) Allele Nomenclature Database, and later expanding to become a central repository for other pharmacogenes as well. PharmGKB will partner with PharmVar to make sure PharmGKB has the most up-to-date pharmacogene allele

CPIC Survey Available Online

An important function of CPIC (Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium) is to receive feedback from, and give feedback to, our user communities. CPIC has posted a survey that is part of that feedback and contains questions regarding priorities for CPIC guidelines, as well as feedback on SNOMED CT term submissions. CPIC

NHGRI’s Genomic Medicine X: Pharmacogenomics Meeting

On May 2 and 3, 2017, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) held its 10th Genomic Medicine meeting, focusing on pharmacogenomics. PharmGKB, PharmCAT and CPIC were presented, as well as a review of the deposition of PharmGKB and CPIC data to ClinVar. We thank Mary Relling from St Jude

Congratulations to Dr. Teri Klein!

PharmGKB is pleased to announce that the Stanford Provost has approved Dr. Teri Klein’s appointment as a Professor of Biomedical Data Science! This appointment is effective March 1 and represents a great acknowledgement of Teri’s academic contributions and leadership in data science and pharmacogenomics. Teri and Russ Altman

NIH Request for Information: Metrics to Assess Value of Biomedical Digital Repositories

NIH has issued a Request for Information to gather input about metrics to assess the impact and value of biomedical digital data repositories, including deposition repositories and knowledgebases. NIH is interested in collecting information about the usage, quality of data, quality of service and other aspects of existing repositories. Community

CPIC Meeting at ASCPT on March 15, 2017

The Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium(CPIC®) Meeting will be held on March 15, 2017, in conjunction with the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT) on March 15-18, 2017 (Washington, DC). The one-day symposium is organized by the Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC®) (cpicpgx.

CPIC Seeks Feedback on Recommendation Strength and Gene/Drug Pair Level Definitions

CPIC is proposing changes to CPIC Guideline grades for strength of recommendation and for definitions of CPIC Levels of gene/drug pairs. Based on a review of other practices and challenges presented by some CPIC gene/drug pairs, it is recommended that the option "no recommendation" be added