Precision Chemistry for Precision Medicine
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During the 2015 State of the Union address, President Obama unveiled plans for a $215 million Precision Medicine Initiative. The details of this plan were laid out by past and present directors of the National Institutes of Health, Harold Varmus and Francis Collins, in a commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine. While the announcement stood as a public statement of support for funding, it was likely the first introduction the American public had to a concept that has been close to my heart for more than a decade. In 2005, I founded the Personal Genome Project, the world’s first open data set of genomic and patient data. The Precision Medicine Initiative offers many opportunities to promote the progress of chemistry, and chemistry in its turn can do much to satisfy the aims of the Initiative.
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