By Jessica Kent, Health IT Analytics | October 3, 2019 The National Institutes on Aging (NIA), part of NIH, have launched two new research centers designed to advance precision medicine for Alzheimer’s disease and reinvigorate the drug development pipeline. The Alzheimer Centers for the Discovery of New Medicines will receive [...]
By Jessica Kent, Health IT Analytics | September 25, 2019 September 25, 2019 - The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of NIH, will donate grants totaling $29.5 million that will help advance DNA sequencing technology and precision medicine. The grants will span a five-year period pending the availability of [...]
By Bryant Haskins, NC Biotech Writer, WRAL Techwire | September 17, 2019 DURHAM – Precision BioSciences, a genome-editing company based in Durham, has received authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to advance its second genome-edited cancer therapy to clinical trials. The FDA has accepted Precision’s Investigational New Drug application [...]
By Bill Siwicki, Healthcare IT News | September 22, 2019 Four precision medicine experts – a groundbreaking provider organization and three precision medicine technology vendors – offer healthcare CIOs and other leaders their expertise for getting started with the nascent area of medicine. Precision medicine is just starting to gain [...]
By Jessica Kent, HealthIT Analytics | August 28, 2019 As part of a four-year NIH study, Baylor College of Medicine has createdguidelines for future efforts in precision medicine that aim to deliver personalized care. NIH’s Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE III) program coordinated activities at 11 clinical participant enrollment [...]
By Alaric Dearment, MedCity News | August 27, 2019 The Alliance for Regenerative Medicine and 13 biotech companies released a statement outlining bioethical principles on genome editing, including opposition to modifications that can be passed to future generations. An advocacy group focused on cell and gene therapy and regenerative medicine [...]
