Precision Medicine Pilot Award from the NIH
Federal officials with the White House and National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced today that Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) will lead the Direct Volunteers Pilot Studies under the first grant to be awarded in the federal Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program. A pioneer in Vanderbilt's precision medicine efforts, Josh Denny, M.D., M.S., Associate Professor of Biomedical Inforamtics and Medicine is the principal investigator for the effort, which is supported by a one-year grant from the PMI Cohort Program (NIH Award #1-OT2-OD-023132).