California Launches Precision Medicine Initiative
April 27, 2015California Gov. Jerry Brown announced a state initiative to advance precision medicine with $3 million in startup funds. The initiative, called the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine, will be led by the University of California, San Francisco with participation from the UC system, and will collaborate with public and industry partners. They will start building an infrastructure that brings together resources to advance data, tools, and applications to the practice of precision medicine. The initiative will develop two demonstration projects in disease areas in which the university system and its partners have expertise. The work, could eventually shed light on why different patients with the same disease may have different responses to the same drugs, as well as why certain diseases, including heart, lung, and kidney disease, and asthma, affect racial and ethnic groups differently.