Fierce Healthcare August 16, 2019
The All of Us project also is making good progress towards its goal of recruiting persons in demographic categories considered to be underrepresented in biomedical research.
The National Institutes of Health-led All of Us precision medicine health research database project has enrolled 230,000 participants as of July 2019, with an additional 40,000 people registering on the website, according to researchers involved with the project.
Of those participants, 175,000 have contributed personal information, biospecimens, physical measurements and shared electronic health record data, researchers from participating organizations, including the Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Departments of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, and the National Institutes of Health wrote in a report published in the New England Journal...