Inside Precision Medicine November 6, 2024
The right drug for the right patient at the right time
On June 26, 2000, accompanied by Francis Collins and Craig Venter, competitors in the race to map the human genome, President Bill Clinton marched into the East Room of the White House, where, he noted, 200 years before, Meriwether Lewis had laid out his expedition across the American frontier to the Pacific Ocean for an appreciative Thomas Jefferson. Two centuries later, Clinton suggested that Collins and Venter’s mapping of the human genome would prove more momentous than Lewis and Clark’s journey across the American continent.
“Today the world is joining us here in the East Room to behold the map of even greater significance” than Lewis and Clark’s, Clinton...
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