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When a Country Cannot be a Cohort: Challenges of Implementing a Large Precision Medicine Cohort Study in the United States

a huge crowd versus a small group of people

The recently proposed US precision medicine initiative promises a new era of healthcare with targeted disease treatment and prevention. It prominently features a longitudinal study of a national cohort of a million or more people to customize interventions based on a person’s genetics and other factors. The long term goal of this study is to Read More >

March 23, 2015 by Muin J Khoury, Director, Office of Public Health Genomics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

genomics, precision medicine

cohort, genomics

Precision Public Health and Precision Medicine: Two Peas in a Pod

two peas is a pod: first pea has a crowd of figures with one under a magnifying glass- second pod has that individual being examined by a doctor- the pod has DNA on it

The 2015 US Precision Medicine Initiative promises a new era of biomedical research and its application in health care. The initiative is enabled by rapid advances in biomedical sciences, including genomics and bioinformatics, as well as the progress in communication, information technologies and data science. Targeted cancer therapies are a near term goal for Read More >

March 2, 2015 by Muin J Khoury, Director, Office of Public Health Genomics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

genomics, precision medicine, public health

genomics, public health