NIH forms team of experts to chart course for the President’s Precision Medicine Initiative research network

Last month, the National Institute of Health (NIH) named more than a dozen top doctors, researchers and business leaders to help steer and inform President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative. In his fiscal year 2016 budget proposal, the President asked Congress for $215 million in funding for an initiative that centers around the creation of a massive database containing the genetic data of at least one million volunteer participants. The participants will share their biological, environmental, lifestyle and behavioral information, as well as tissue samples with researchers. The results from studying such a large group of Americans will build the scientific evidence necessary for moving precision medicine from concept to reality.