Medical Research

NIH Funding to Advance “All of Us” Research Program Dataset Use

November 27, 2023 - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded $9.7 million to 26 two-year projects that will advance high-priority research by leveraging the All of Us Research Program dataset. Each project will prioritize tool development and novel analyses across multiple disease areas with support from ten NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices...


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by Shania Kennedy

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by Shania Kennedy

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by Shania Kennedy

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by Mark Melchionna

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by Mark Melchionna

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by Mark Melchionna

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by Mark Melchionna

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by Mark Melchionna

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by Mark Melchionna

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by Mark Melchionna

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The National Institutes of Health's (NIH) All of Us Research Program announced that 250,000 whole genome sequences are now available to researchers in the US for use in precision medicine research,...

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