Resources
Features
Fall 2020, UC Davis Health Cultivating Health blog
December 2, 2019, UC Davis Health Magazine Winter 2019
November 26, 2019, UC Davis Health Newsroom
October 2019, UC Davis Health Good Food is Good Medicine blog
May 1, 2018, UC Davis Health Newsroom
Resources
National Precision Medicine Initiative
The National Precision Medicine Initiative was proposed by President Obama in his State of the Union address on January 30, 2015. It includes a description of the initiative, information about the privacy principles being developed, patient stories and a link to a fact sheet about the initiative. (View Fact Sheet)
California Launches Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine (CIAPM)
UC Davis is a partner with the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine (CIAPM) which was launched in 2015. CIAPM is a partnership between the state, the University of California and other public and private entities focused on supporting health innovations, science and technology.
With our team-based approach to health, we are increasingly capable of providing highly specialized care to patients and solving pressing problems in public health.
This article describes the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine and includes a timeline of milestones along the pathway to precision medicine.
Cancer Treatment and Precision Medicine
Further learning
Sue Desmond-Hellmann TedxTalk on the importance of Precision Medicine
Framingham Heart Study, the first Precision Medicine study started 70 years ago.