{"id":221318,"date":"2016-07-25T16:30:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T19:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/?p=221318"},"modified":"2016-07-25T16:30:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T19:30:42","slug":"precision-medicine-takes-its-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/precision-medicine-takes-its-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"Precision medicine takes its turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_221319\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-221319\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Estrat_wh_precision_medicine_header2.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. President Barack Obama at the launch of the 2015 Precision Medicine Initiative\" width=\"290\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Estrat_wh_precision_medicine_header2.jpg 290w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Estrat_wh_precision_medicine_header2-250x129.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Estrat_wh_precision_medicine_header2-120x62.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">WHITE HOUSE<\/span>U.S. President Barack Obama at the launch of the 2015 Precision Medicine Initiative<span class=\"media-credits\">WHITE HOUSE<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the premier institution in the U.S. dedicated to the advancement of medical research, has announced the launch\u00a0of a number of programs in the field of precision medicine, an approach that combines clinical and molecular information on diseases in an effort to develop individualized treatments.\u00a0 It represents the first step in the Precision Medicine Initiative launched in 2015 by President Barack Obama.\u00a0 The initiative will be allocated approximately US$1 billion over the next four years.\u00a0 The selected projects will present proposals for implementation of one of the initiative\u2019s most ambitious phases: building a large-scale research participant group called a cohort.\u00a0 The purpose of the cohort program is to study the relationship between genetics and health and life-style on the lives of a research cohort of one million volunteers.\u00a0 In an interview with <em>Science<\/em>, NIH Director Francis Collins remarked on the program\u2019s scale, calling it \u201cthe largest, most ambitious research project of this sort ever undertaken.\u201d\u00a0 One of the participating institutions, Vanderbilt University, will examine specific recruiting methods in order to help the program meet its objective of 79,000 volunteers by the end of 2016.\u00a0 By 2019, the number of volunteers is expected to grow to one million.\u00a0 Verily, a Google subsidiary that conducts research into the life sciences, will act as consultant to the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NIH launch a number of programs in the field of precision medicine ","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[234,247],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-221318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strategies","tag-finance","tag-medicine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221318"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=221318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}