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Dr. Francis Collins discusses All of Us on CBS This Morning

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Dr. Francis Collins appeared on CBS This Morning to promote the All of Us program, a part of the Precision Medicine Initiative, which launches this Sunday, May 6th. When asked about what it hopes to accomplish, he explained:“Do you ever feel when

Promote the study of Pharmacogenomics in the All of Us cohort

The NIH is collecting suggestions for what to study in a new large cohort of one million or more people living in the United States. The All of Us research program is part of the Precision Medicine Initiative and will recruit volunteers across the USA to share their data with

Early Registration for Precision Medicine Conference ends Sunday

Early registration for the University of Florida Precision Medicine Conference, held from March 8-10 in Orlando, Florida, ends this Sunday, January 22 at midnight. Earn continuing education credit and learn how to translate pharmacogenomics into practice. The program, which includes speakers, case studies, and participant genotyping, will provide practical information

Wall Street Journal Discusses Predispositional Personal Genome Sequencing, PGx

A recent article by Laura Landro in the Wall Street Journal titled “Why Knowing Your Genetic Data Can Be a Tricky Proposition” discusses the benefits and complications of Predisposition Personal Genome Sequencing (PPGS) and the Personal Genome Sequencing Outcomes, or PeopleSeq consortium. PPGS is preemptive genome sequencing of apparently healthy

Race and Pharmacogenetics discussed in the New England Journal of Medicine

The authors of a new Perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine (“Will precision medicine move us beyond race?”) focus on the potential pitfalls of using race based categories as proxies for pharmacogenetic variants. Self-identified race may not predict genotype or drug response in individual patients and the use

Pharmacogenetics in Scientific American

Dina Fine Maron discusses pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics (PGx) in a new video and article titled “A Very Personal Problem” in this week’s issue of Scientific American. In that article, Fine Maron describes the science of PGx and tells the personal stories of two pediatric patients who received care at

CPIC Informatics Working Group publishes article in JAMIA

An article from the Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC) Informatics Working Group has now been published ahead-of-print on the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) website. Within the paper, the authors discuss principles that will support the implementation of precision medicine, particularly pharmacogenomics, into routine clinical care. Hoffman

The Precision Medicine Initiative: Consultative PGx and Data Sharing at Stanford University

On February 25th, one year after the announcement of the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI), the White House hosted the Precision Medicine Summit. A White House press release described how various public and private groups will be taking steps to advance the goals of the PMI. As part of the PMI