Federal officials with the White House and National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced today that Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) will lead the Direct Volunteers Pilot Studies under the first grant to be awarded in the federal Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program. A pioneer in Vanderbilt's precision medicine efforts, Josh Denny, M.D., M.S., Associate Professor of Biomedical Inforamtics and Medicine is the principal investigator for the effort, which is supported by a one-year grant from the PMI Cohort Program (NIH Award #1-OT2-OD-023132). Additional Vanderbilt researchers involved with the Direct Volunteers Pilot Studies also include Paul Harris, Ph.D., director of the Office of Research Informatics; Consuelo Wilkins, M.D., director of the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance; and Sunil Kripalani, M.D., director of Vanderbilt's Effective Health Communication Program, Bradley Malin, Ph.D., director of Vanderbilt's Health Data Science Center, and Jill Pulley, MBA, director of Research Support Services in the Office of Research.
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