“Scientists gathered on March 1 in Bethesda, Maryland, for the 2018 NIH Alzheimer’s Disease Research Summit, ready to absorb the 82 presentations scheduled over two days… and the NIH took away 75 pages of funding recommendations for future research…”
“Big data and precision medicine dominated the day, building on plenary talks by Eric Schadt from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Los Angeles, and Joni Rutter of the NIH. Rutter gave an update on the All of Us research program, formerly called the Precision Medicine Initiative cohort. It plans to gather data on 1 million Americans…”
“Schadt thinks the possibilities from mining such data are staggering…” Read the full article here.
Source: Big Data Was the Big Theme at Shortened NIH Summit – By Tom Fagan, March 10, 2018. ALZFORUM.
