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Six Projects Selected for California Precision Medicine Initiative

The Brown administration and the University of California, San Francisco announced on Tuesday that six projects have been selected for the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine. Precision medicine uses data-driven tools, analysis and advanced computing to develop new diagnostics, therapies and insights into disease.

The Brown administration and the University of California, San Francisco announced on Tuesday that six projects have been selected for the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine.

Precision medicine uses data-driven tools, analysis and advanced computing to develop new diagnostics, therapies and insights into disease, according to a press release from the Governor's Office.

Brown announced the precision medicine initiative in 2015. The administration believes it's the first state to do so.

The 2016 state budget included approximately $10 million for precision medicine projects, and built upon the successful inclusion of $3 million in appropriations in 2014-2015, which lawmakers had authorized for two demonstration projects spearheaded by the University of California, San Francisco and the University of California, Santa Cruz.

The six projects announced Tuesday include, among other goals, improving the early treatment of prostate cancer, helping patients better manage chronic conditions such as high blood pressure and depression, gathering personal health data through their mobile phones or via specialized wearable technology, applying state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technology to CT scanning, creating a catalog of DNA variants, and combining several types of clinical data and real-time patient data into interactive tools.

The projects were selected through a selection committee of internationally recognized experts in genomics, statistics, ethics, cancer, computation and other sciences, according to the release. “Over 20 organizations from academia, private sector, patient advocate groups, hospital systems and entrepreneurs will be partnering to complete these projects, which will use research, clinical, environmental and population data to better diagnose, treat and prevent disease.”

“Each grant awardee is eligible for up to $1.2 million in grant funding, which will then be leveraged with other non-state funding sources to complete the projects,” according to the release. “In addition to developing demonstration projects, CIAPM is conducting an inventory of California’s vast technological and medical resources that make precision medicine possible.”

The projects are scheduled to begin in December and continue for 18 months.

For more information about the data-driven CIAPM initiative, including more about the selected projects, visit http://www.CIAPM.org.