News from the NIH: potential contributions of the behavioral and social sciences to the precision medicine initiative
- 19 May 2015
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Translational Behavioral Medicine
- Vol. 5 (3), 243-246
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s13142-015-0320-5
Abstract
At this year's State of the Union address, the President announced a new $215 million Precision Medicine Initiative in the 2016 budget that will pioneer a new model of patient-empowered research that promises to accelerate biomedical discoveries and provide clinicians with new tools, knowledge, and therapies to select which treatments will work best for which patients [1, 2]. Concurrently, Directors of the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute, Drs. Francis Collins and Harold Varmus, respectively, published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine that describes two main components of this initiative, a near-term focus on cancer therapy and...Keywords
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