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All of Us Research Program Ramping up on In-Person Enrollment
Dr. Cora E. Lewis, a professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology in the UAB School of Public Health, talked to the Birmingham Times about the pause of in-person enrollment for the All of Us Research Program when the pandemic started in March 2020 and explained how in-person recruitment resumed at UAB in January 2021 with safety precautions in place.
April 8, 2021
Type: News
"All of Us" Aims to Expand Tribal Engagement for Precision Medicine
The All of Us Research Program is working to respectfully engage American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people and support their inclusion in precision medicine research. NIH engaged in a two-year Tribal Consultation process to gather input from tribal leaders; as a result, All of Us leaders reaffirmed a set of commitments to Tribal Nations, including rules to never recruit on tribal lands or disclose participants’ tribal affiliations without a tribe’s agreement.
April 5, 2021
Type: News
Woman of Medicine: Karen Dotson ALL OF US!
All of Us at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), in collaboration with partners throughout the country, is laying the groundwork for research that may help eliminate health disparities, particularly in communities of color. Historically, these communities have been underrepresented in biomedical research and experience the greatest disparities in health care access and health outcomes. Karen Dotson and her All of Us team at MCW want to lead the region in program enrollments from communities of color.
March 26, 2021
Type: News
Addressing health inequity in disparities of cancer outcomes
The research community has responded to the recognized lack of population diversity in clinical trials. A cornerstone of the All of Us Research Program is the enrollment of racial and ethnic minorities to ensure that diversity can inform precision medicine research.
March 14, 2021
Type: News
Intel and Google Cloud Team with All of Us Research Program
Intel joins the NIH All of Us Research Program in its historic effort to improve population health by making biomedical data from underrepresented groups available to COVID-19 researchers nationwide via the Researcher Workbench.
February 2, 2021
Type: News
National Research Program Returns First Results to Local Participants
Participants of the All of Us Research Program who enrolled at the UW Health site will soon receive their genetic results from the biosamples they donated starting in 2018. The results may reveal how their DNA might affect their body’s response to certain types of medicine and the genetic variants associated with increased risk of specific diseases.
January 21, 2021
Type: News
All of Us Research: Why Some Get Sick, And Others Are in Great Health
Angela Williams and Chris Crawford, research study navigators at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, discuss how the All of Us Research Program will benefit underrepresented populations and improve health care for future generations. They also explain their reasons for joining the All of Us team and what motivates them to propel All of Us forward.
December 3, 2020
Type: News
Essentia Seeks Participants for Nationwide COVID-19 Study
Essentia Health was selected as an enrollment partner for the All of Us Research Program, to enroll participants from rural communities in northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North Dakota in a COVID-19 research study.
September 23, 2020
Type: News
Vanderbilt Health Looks to Personalize Care Through Technology
Vanderbilt Health is leveraging large swaths of clinical and genetic data to create personalized health care technologies. The large swaths of data that make these technologies possible come from the All of Us Research Program, for which Vanderbilt serves as a major hub. “All of Us is really an exciting project built on a lot of converging elements and technologies that have made a scale of projects in biomedical sciences that has never been possible before,” said Josh Denny, vice president of personalized medicine at Vanderbilt and CEO of All of Us.
September 22, 2020
Type: News
7 ways to expand diversity in precision medicine research
The American Medical Association has partnered with All of Us, which aims to enable a new era of medicine through research, technology, and policies that empower patients, researchers and providers to work together to develop individualized care.
January 30, 2020
Type: News
All of Us Research Program Now Enrolling Wisconsin Rapids Area Residents
All of Us enrollment sites in Wisconsin are currently located in Marshfield, Wausau, Chippewa Falls, Madison, and Milwaukee. The research program has started part-time enrollment in Stevens Point, Minocqua, and Wisconsin Rapids, with other sites coming soon.
December 14, 2019
Type: News
Northwoods Residents Sought For Nationwide Research Program
Marshfield Clinic Health System is enrolling participants in this area in the All of Us Research Program, a nationwide effort to gather data from one million or more people living in the U.S. The program is of no charge to participants.
November 14, 2019
Type: News
Why Collaboration and Innovation Are Key to Improving Medical Research
In the All of Us Research Program, which is currently enrolling participants, researchers will follow 1 million Americans who are providing electronic health records, blood samples for DNA sequencing, and information from Fitbits and questionnaires. That rich trove of data will then be available to other researchers.
October 17, 2019
Type: News
New All of Us Genome Center to Advance Precision Medicine
The All of Us Research Program has selected the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, Alabama to examine the use of DNA sequencing, genomics, and precision medicine for patient care. Investigators will test cutting-edge DNA sequencing technologies that could improve diagnosis and treatment of rare and common diseases.
October 21, 2019
Type: News
Pitt's All of Us Pennsylvania Opens Enrollment Center in the Heart of Oakland
The All of Us Research Program Pennsylvania, led by the University of Pittsburgh Clinical and Translational Science Institute, unveiled its latest enrollment center on Forbes Avenue in Oakland.
September 20, 2019
Type: News
The All of Us Research Project: A Historic Effort to Sequence One Million Genomes
The All of Us Research Program is a key component of the Precision Medicine Initiative. The initiative looks to enable a new era in medicine in which researchers, health care professionals and patients work together to develop individualized care.
September 2, 2019
Type: News
NIH Will Soon Share Genetic Data with Those Who Participated in Precision Medicine Study
The nearly 200,000 people who have shared their DNA, their medical records, and detailed behavioral surveys will soon begin to receive the results of a genetic analysis performed by the National Institutes of Health, the agency announced Wednesday.
August 21, 2019
Type: News
All of Us Reports on Progress Made Nationwide in the Historic Research Program
The All of Us Research Program at the National Institutes of Health has made strong progress in its efforts to advance precision medicine, according to a report published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
August 15, 2019
Type: News
National Institutes of Health Brings All of Us Effort to Vancouver
The All of Us Research Program is traversing the country as part of a nationwide effort to improve medical treatment by better understanding the impacts of lifestyle, environment and biology on health. The program will be in Vancouver through August 9.
August 1, 2019
Type: News
Temple University Joins Nationwide Precision Medicine Effort
In an effort to address health inequities and advance individualized prevention, treatment and care for people of all backgrounds, Temple has joined the National Institutes of Health and the University of Pittsburgh to open an enrollment site for the All of Us Research Program.
July 12, 2019
Type: News
How Your DNA Could Change the Future of Health
"I came mostly for the research part, to help," said volunteer Russel Emerson. "Yes we will find something out about ourselves, but I really wanted to give my DNA and all the information so it would help further research on diseases and other genetic things for medical reasons."
June 14, 2019
Type: News
National health study gains local participants as it pushes for 1 million
In Western Pennsylvania, almost 16,000 adults have joined All of Us, reported Dr. Mylynda Massart, a family medicine physician with a special focus on genetics and one of the co-investigators of the All of Us Pennsylvania Research Program.
May 27, 2019
Type: News
Residents Invited to Assist with All of Us PA
All of Us Pennsylvania hosted an enrollment event at the University of Pittsburgh to work with people willing to share their medical history — and future — for the sake of better understanding of how that medical picture develops.
March 26, 2019
Type: News
All of Us Research: UAB's Dr. Bruce Korf on Medical Benefits of Precision Medicine
Dr. Bruce R. Korf, M.D., Ph.D., is the Chief Genomics Officer at UAB Medicine and co-principal investigator of the All of Us Southern Network. In an interview with the Birmingham Times, he explained why All of Us is important for Alabama.
March 7, 2019
Type: News
Precision Communication For Precision Medicine: How NIH's All Of Us Is Tackling Patient Recruitment
All of Us communications director Alyssa Cotler spoke to Clinical Informatics News about the program's efforts to recruit participants from populations that have been historically underrepresented in biomedical research.
August 2, 2018
Type: News
Diversity in health research participants is key to finding cures
"Unless we ensure that underrepresented groups are no longer underrepresented, we will continue to see the fruits of new health research only provide benefit to the people that are represented in the research, with many others left out."
June 14, 2018
Type: News
Personalized Medicine Awareness Low Among U.S. Adults, Survey Finds
A recent study of more than 1,000 U.S. adults found that many people have not heard of precision medicine, also known as personalized medicine. As the All of Us Research Program grows, say program leaders, awareness may spread.
May 25, 2018
Type: News
University of Iowa joins 'All of Us' research initiative
In principle, the All of Us initiative will determine "how genetics or your biology or your lifestyle and your environment all come together to determine your health and disease," said Colleen Campbell, assistant director of the Iowa Institute of Human Genetics.
May 13, 2018
Type: News
How To Conquer The Critical Health Challenges Facing Black America
"Programs like All of Us are additional ways we can further research participation as well as inspire all people to actively advocate for equal access to effective treatments and care in order to truly inspire change," writes Dr. Randall Cobb, executive director of the W. Montague Cobb/National Medical Association Health Institute.
May 6, 2018
Type: News
U.S. Seeking 1 Million for Massive Study of DNA, Health Habits
The Associated Press notes that learning about medicine in way that will benefit everyone means studying “…the healthy and not-so-healthy, young and old, rural and urban, blue-collar and white-collar—and people of all races and ethnicities."
May 1, 2018
Type: News
The DNA Data We Have Is Too White. Scientists Want to Fix That
"By embracing—and actively seeking out—more minorities in research," says Smithsonian Magazine, "the project hopes to give more accurate data about the overall population and fix a long-time discrepancy that has real health impacts."
April 30, 2018
Type: News
National Launch of Landmark All of Us Study Set for Spring; Portal for Researchers to Follow
This update in the Report on Research Compliance introduces the All of Us Research Program, its plans, its goals, and its progress as the program moves rapidly toward national launch.
February 2, 2018
Type: News
Medical Research and Development Issues to Watch for in 2018
Health Affairs writes that the All of Us Research Program "has made remarkable progress in a short time, wrestling with challenging issues including privacy, security, trust, and return of results, which are central to creating a large-scale, people-centered health initiative."
January 31, 2018
Type: News
Wanted: 1 Million or More People to Shape Precision Medicine's Future
Recognizing the crucial role of physicians in clinical research success, the NIH is teaming up with the American Medical Association to offer a webinar to increase health care providers' understanding and awareness of the All of Us Research Program.
January 24, 2018
Type: News
UConn Health Conference – Genomics: at the Heart of ‘All of Us’
In this Q & A article Stephanie Devaney, Ph.D., deputy director of the All of Us Research Program, discusses how the new frontier of precision medicine, fueled by genomics, is at the heart of all our future health and healthcare.
June 1, 2017
Type: News
A Fresh Look at the Rules for Returning Research Results
As the biomedical research enterprise increasingly moves to a more participatory model of research, where research participants are treated more as partners than passive subjects, we can expect greater emphasis on returning individual-level results of research to participants.
May 30, 2017
Type: News
Precision Medicine Initiative Aims to Revolutionize Health Care
In a story about the White House summit on PMI, Dr. Collins talks to CBS News about how PMI will gather information which will be informative not only on illness, but also on how to keep people in good health.
February 25, 2016
Type: News
Patients' Medical Records May Soon Have Genetic Results
A recent US News and World Report article looked at the eventual inclusion of genetic information in personal medical records and how the direction of the Precision Medicine Initiative will mean greater patient involvement in healthcare decisions.
July 23, 2015
Type: News
NIH seeks feedback on how to collect clinical data via smartphones, wearables
A recent article in MobiHealth News explained how participants' mobile technologies, such as smartphones and wearable health data trackers, will be key elements for collecting information for the Precision Medicine Initiative. The article also highlighted NIH's PMI Feedback blog.
July 7, 2015
Type: News
From Bench to Bedside: How Precision Medicine is Changing the Future
NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins recently gave a presentation at the annual Aspen Ideas Festival. In his talk, Dr. Collins highlights how the Precision Medicine Initiative pushes for methods opposite of the one-size-fits-all standard of disease treatment currently in use.
June 26, 2015
Type: News
Michigan Trials Take Cancer Fight to Cellular Level
The Detroit News recently published an article about efforts spurred by the Precision Medicine Initiative taking place at local hospitals and research laboratories. The article highlights clinical trials that target cancer in a new way. Dr. Barbara Conley of the National Cancer Institute is interviewed for the piece.
June 23, 2015
Type: News
Conquering Cancer: Personalized Medicine is the Future
The Huffington Post looks at the Precision Medicine Initiative through the lens of treating cancer. This blog post details how precision medicine focuses on treating each patient based on their genetic makeup and specific mutations in their body.
June 19, 2015
Type: News
Cancer Trials are Changing. That Could Mean Faster Access to Better Drugs
The Washington Post examines a new model of cancer research, which focuses on precision medicine. Instead of finding drugs to treat cancers in specific organs, new trials seek to group patients together based on similar genetic mutations, regardless of cancer location.
June 1, 2015
Type: News
A New Way to Study Cancer and its Treatments
This article in the Washington Post details how the NCI-MATCH research study is a prime example of a shift toward precision medicine. The trial is designed to be more efficient, faster and better able to match drugs with patients that are most likely to benefit from them.
June 1, 2015
Type: News
The History of Medicine Will Seem Blunt and Random Compared to What's Coming Next
Dr. Eric Green, director of NIH's National Human Genome Research Institute, gives five reasons we're at a turning point with precision medicine and provides an overview of the Precision Medicine Initiative for this article in Business Insider.
May 20, 2015
Type: News
U.S. Introduces New DNA Standard for Ensuring Accuracy of Genetic Tests
The New York Times reports on recently released genetic testing standards by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. As the Precision Medicine Initiative gains momentum, standards in genetic testing are vital to ensure accurate diagnoses across varying laboratories and testing methods.
May 14, 2015
Type: News
Want Precision Medicine? Share Your Data
Kathy Giusti, member of the NIH Precision Medicine Initiative Working Group, writes a commentary in Forbes noting the need for a cultural shift to enable universal open data sharing in order to realize the full potential of precision medicine.
May 11, 2015
Type: News
