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As U.S. Looks to Launch Precision Health Study, Google’s Role Emerges

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Google’s parent company Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG ) and its wholly owned biotech R&D group, Verily Life Sciences, are helping build a secure center where health records, genomic data, and other personal information from hundreds of thousands of people can be collected, analyzed, and shared with health researchers.

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If Budget Holds, NIH Precision Study Could Be Flush As Volunteers Arrive

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But as things stand, the Precision Medicine Initiative, or PMI, could get as much as. But in staving off a government shutdown, Congress pushed back hard against the White House’s funding proposal to cover the rest of the current fiscal year, which runs through September. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Recruitment Goal In Obama Precision Med Study: 1M in 3 or 4 Years

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National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins (pictured) and FDA commissioner Rob Califf spoke on a call this afternoon to update the Precision Medicine Initiative, or PMI, which President Obama unveiled in early 2015. And the NIH will work with the Department of Veterans Affairs to open the PMI to veterans.

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Precision Medicine In Trump Era? California Presses Own Modest Program

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Among the many questions swirling around the incoming Trump administration is the fate of ambitious biomedical science projects that require federal funding. What will a Trump presidency and Republican control of Congress mean for the Precision Medicine Initiative and the Cancer Moonshot program, both championed by the Obama administration?

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