Tag Archives: Precision Medicine Initiative

July, 2016

7 July
FDA Advances Precision Medicine Initiative with Draft Guidances on NGS-Based Tests

In support of the President’s Precision Medicine Initiative, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued two draft guidances that, when finalized, will provide a flexible and streamlined approach to the oversight of tests that detect medically important differences in a person’s genomic makeup. The powerful new technology, known as …
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26 February
Surescripts Supports White House to Advance Precision Medicine Initiative

ARLINGTON, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today Surescripts, the nation’s leading health information network, announces its support of President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI). Surescripts will participate in the White House Precision Medicine Initiative Summit and pledge its support to provide Surescripts’ infrastructure and technology to help the Precision Medicine Initiative aggregate the medical …
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31 March
NIH Names Working Group to Steer President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced that a panel of experts will steer President Obama’s $215 million Precision Medicine Initiative. Obama’s vision includes a national research cohort of one million or more participants who will volunteer to share their biological, environmental, lifestyle and behavioral information, as well as …
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