"The United States Million Genome" PK "British 100,000 Genome"

Recently, the Obama administration invited some executives of major pharmaceutical companies to discuss the budget for the next fiscal year in the White House. The Obama administration has proposed investing 215 million US dollars for the genetic sequencing project of 1 million volunteers in the United States. medical service. This project is in the "100,000 Genome Project" sponsored by the British government in 2012. Or is it another meaning?

Release date: 2015-02-02

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In late January, US President Barack Obama said with deep affection in his 2015 State of the Union speech that the United States has eliminated polio and mapped out the human genome, which means that the United States has brought human medicine into a new era... Down, we are committed to curing diseases such as cancer and diabetes, giving everyone access to personalized information that needs to protect themselves and their families, and announced a new project, the Precision Medicine Initiative.

Recently, this initiative has been put on the agenda. Obama is proposing to Congress to spend 215 million on the genome sequencing of 1 million people in the United States as part of a comprehensive accelerated biomedical research and development program to help develop a new generation of drugs.

What is precision medicine?

Many times, at various domestic academic seminars, the participating experts also called for the transformation of our medical needs from “evidence-based medicine” to “precise medicine”. What exactly does precision medical care mean? Simply put: precision medicine is to create a huge database of patient medical data. Researchers analyze and compare patient information with information in the database to further understand the underlying causes of the disease and develop A targeted drug that treats a genetic mutation in a particular patient-specific disease.

In order to realize this dream as soon as possible, the Obama administration hopes to first recruit 1 million or more volunteers for genome sequencing, combining their data information with information already stored in the National Bioinformatics Database (Biobank) to form a huge Research and development resource library.

Now, in order to make its dream project come to an early stage, on January 30th, Obama convened executives from major US pharmaceutical companies to discuss the budget for the next fiscal year. It plans to invest $215 million in precision medical planning projects from October 2015. . The executives from the participants came from major biopharmaceutical companies, including Merck (stock code: MRK), Regenerative Medicine (stock code: REGN), Foundation Medicine (stock code: FMI), which was just acquired by Roche, Vertex Pharmaceuticals (stock code: VRTX) and so on.

The following is the distribution of this fund:

1) $130 million is allocated to the NIH (National Institutes of Health) for the recruitment and sequencing of the first volunteers;

2) $70 million is allocated to the NIH Cancer Institute for decoding tumor genes and for the development of new therapies;

3) $10 million is allocated to the FDA, and relevant technologies and experts are allowed to be introduced when it is necessary to coordinate the “precise medical” project;

4) $5 million is allocated to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology for the health and privacy of data and information security for those who are committed to ensuring precision care. .

Edit review

The plan was only a week before Obama’s speech in last week’s State of the Union address, but his project has already begun, and his team’s execution ability is evident. This aspect reflects the forward-looking and urgency of the “precise medical” project based on genetic information. On the other hand, it also shows that in the world's leading medical technology, the United States is lagging behind the UK's “100,000 Genome Project”. Resolutely use the "Million Genome Project" to defend the medical status of your country!

Here, the author thinks that the population base of our great motherland is so large. If we want to start the "precise medical project", then it should not be called "Million Genome Project", and the market value brought by this will be incalculable!

Source: biodiscover

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