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. 2016 Jul;39(7):1080-4.
doi: 10.2337/dc16-0541.

NIH Precision Medicine Initiative: Implications for Diabetes Research

Judith E Fradkin  1 , Mary C Hanlon  2 , Griffin P Rodgers  3
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NIH Precision Medicine Initiative: Implications for Diabetes Research

Judith E Fradkin et al. Diabetes Care. 2016 Jul.

Abstract

In his January 2015 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama announced a new Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) to personalize approaches toward improving health and treating disease (www.whitehouse.gov/precision-medicine). He stated that the goal of such an initiative was "to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes, and to give all of us access to the personalized information we need to keep ourselves and our families healthier." Since that time, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has taken a leadership role in implementing the President's vision related to biomedical research (www.nih.gov/precisionmedicine). Here, we discuss the NIH component of the PMI, related ongoing diabetes research, and near-term research that could position the diabetes field to take full advantage of the opportunities that stem from the PMI.

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