"Precision Medical Plan" is about to start in the US

With the announcement that four medical centers will begin recruiting volunteers this fall, US President Barack Obama’s ambitious 1 million personalized medical research is beginning to take shape. The fifth center aims to “bomb” the general public by advertising that will soon be pushed to the browser or mobile phone, signing up to recruit 350,000 participants.

Recently, the White House announced a $55 million grant to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This started the launch gun for the Precision Medical Plan (PMI) cohort project. The program will recruit 1 million or more people who are willing to share their health and genetic information for many years to help researchers develop personalized treatments. Other countries have ongoing types of research, but the US version is larger, more diverse, and more patient-centric – participants will help design the study and see their data. NIH Dean Francis Collins called it "the largest and most ambitious research project of its kind to date."

Obama, who first announced PMI in January 2015, wrote in the Boston Globe that "the next breakthrough" from PMI research will create jobs, improve health care, and "help people live longer, Happy and healthy life."

Obama's precision medical plan will recruit 1 million or more people who are willing to share their health and genetic information for many years.

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To generate a cohort, NIH initially wanted to link existing large-scale health research to DNA samples such as large biological databases operated by Northern California health service provider Kaiser Permanente. However, a team of consultants recommended recruiting a portion of new volunteers to standardize data and sample collection. Subsequently, NIH invited health care providers to apply for participation.

The winners were spread across four medical centers throughout the United States: Columbia University Medical Center, Northwestern University in Chicago, University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, and the University of Arizona. These centers are working with local health care providers to find research volunteers.

Starting in November of this year, each center will recruit 10,000 participants in the first year and then recruit 35,000 each year until it reaches 150,000 in 2020. Funding for $55 million for the fiscal year ending September 30th includes funding to allow the Veterans Administration to recruit volunteers and help community health centers attract low-income group participants. More recruitment centers will be added later.

However, even the newly announced center is not sure how the competition will proceed. Some researchers say that some of the most promising winners are not on the list. According to David Goldstein, head of the Columbia University Medical Center and geneticist, NIH likes applicants who can safely share patient electronic health records and recruit people from different groups. To date, most of the participants in large genetic studies have been white. "This time we intend to fix this flaw," Goldstein said. For Columbia University Medical Center, participants from black-habited areas such as Harlem will be recruited.

Elizabeth Calhoun, co-director of the University of Arizona Medical Center, said that one of the strengths of the school is its ability to take advantage of the “great diverse patient population.” Its partner, the Banner Health Center, treats patients throughout the Southwest, including Native Americans and many Latinos.

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