Susan Jones, University of Pittsburgh: University Times; All of Us program wants to change the face of medicine
"Dr. Steven Reis wants all of you to become part of All of Us.
Pitt received a $46 million award in 2016 from National Institutes of
Health to build the partnerships and infrastructure needed to carry out
the All of Us initiative, which seeks to gather health information from 1
million people nationwide to create a database to study different
diseases and other maladies, and in the process change the face of
medicine.
In Pennsylvania, Pitt is responsible for recruiting 120,000 participants
and by early this week had reached 11,610. Nationally, there are more
than a dozen other organizations now gathering participants and more
than 80,000 people have enrolled nationwide. There are between 40 and 50
people working on the project at Pitt...
The institute “supports translational research, meaning how to get
research from the bench to the bedside, to the patient, to practice, to
the community, to health policy,” Reis said...
The information will be stored in a secure central database created by
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Verily Life Sciences (a Google
company) and the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass. Volunteers will
have access to their study results, along with summarized data from
across the program."
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