A New Initiative on Precision Medicine

Overview

Journal N Engl J Med

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2015 Jan 31

PMID 25635347

Citations 2044

Authors

Francis S Collins

Harold Varmus

Affiliations

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Abstract

President Obama has announced a research initiative that aims to accelerate progress toward a new era of precision medicine, with a near-term focus on cancers and a longer-term aim to generate knowledge applicable to the whole range of health and disease.

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