Henry Ford Health System Leads 7-State Research Consortium Awarded Precision Medicine Funding
Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 09:51
in Health & Medicine
The National Institutes of Health announced today that Henry Ford Health System is leading a five-member research consortium to expand the geographic reach and diversity of the NIH's Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) Cohort Program. The consortium is one of four regional health care systems newly awarded funding under the PMI Cohort Program, a landmark research effort aimed at advancing personalized health care by studying how individual differences in lifestyle, environment and genetics influence a person's health and disease risk.