UChicago to Support NIH Million-person Precision Medicine Study

by Press on July 8, 2016

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Consortium to enroll 150,000 Illinois participants

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CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–July 8, 2016

By John Easton

The University of Chicago is one of three Illinois academic institutions that will work together to help launch President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) Cohort Program to enroll 1 million or more participants in a national research effort designed to find better ways to prevent and treat disease based on lifestyle, environment and genetics.