New UCSF Program Aims to Advance Equity in Genomic Medicine in the Bay Area

By Nicholas Weiler on August 29, 2017

A team of UC San Francisco researchers will receive $11.7 million over four years from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to launch a new Program in Prenatal and Pediatric Genomic Sequencing (P3EGS) at UCSF. The program is aimed at pursuing equity in the implementation of genomic precision medicine for children and families in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Genomic precision medicine is a broad effort to connect the vast amounts of genetic sequencing data that have been collected in the past decades with information about human population health in order to understand why individuals respond differently to sickness and medical treatment, and to apply this knowledge toward developing more precise diagnostics and therapies targeted to the needs of particular patients and groups.