{"id":5813,"date":"2015-01-30T16:06:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T21:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=5813"},"modified":"2015-01-30T16:06:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T21:06:06","slug":"obama-to-seek-215-million-for-precision-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2015\/01\/30\/obama-to-seek-215-million-for-precision-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama to Seek $215 Million for Precision-Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2015\/01\/30\/obama-to-seek-215-million-for-precision-medicine\/srini_vasan3-225x300\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5864\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2015\/01\/srini_vasan3-225x300-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"srini_vasan3-225x300\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5864\" \/><\/a>Nature<\/h3>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/faculty\/ramachandran\/\">Vasan Ramachandran<\/a>, MD, cardiology<\/h4>\n<p>US President Barack Obama announced today that he is seeking US$215 million for an effort that will match patients&#8217; genetic and physiological data to treat their health conditions more precisely. Obama proposed the plan, known as the Precision Medicine Initiative, in his annual State of the Union address last week. But it is not clear whether he is seeking enough money to fulfil his ambitious goals.<\/p>\n<h3>Expert quote:<\/h3>\n<p>Although the Framingham study has not been approached about participating in the latest initiative, one of its principal investigators says that he would welcome the development. \u201cAbsolutely we\u2019d like to get involved,\u201d says Vasan Ramachandran, a cardiologist at Boston University in Massachusetts. \u201cEvery study would like to be a contributing force for precision medicine.\u201d The Framingham study has produced nearly seven decades of medical records and physiological data, plus genome sequences for more than 4,000 people, Ramachandran adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature Vasan Ramachandran, MD, cardiology US President Barack Obama announced today that he is seeking US$215 million for an effort that will match patients&#8217; genetic and physiological data to treat their health conditions more precisely. Obama proposed the plan, known as the Precision Medicine Initiative, in his annual State of the Union address last week. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[126],"tags":[142],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}