Chris Gurnett presents at NextGen Precision Health Discovery Series (Links to an external site)
Dr. Christina Gurnett talked about the Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences Precision Health function, including efforts to integrate of genomic and electronic health record data, engage community and research participants through return of research results, and her own basic science research developing methods to quantify the functional effects of thousands of gene variants using […]
University joins All of Us Research Program with support from the ICTS
by Julia Evangelou Strait•May 12, 2021 To help understand the complex factors that contribute to human health and disease, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has joined the All of Us Research Program, an initiative of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that seeks to build a large, detailed biomedical data resource that reflects […]
Chris Gurnett, MD, PhD and Jason Newland, MD, MEd awarded $5 million COVID-19 grant
Congratulations to Chris Gurnett and Jason Newland who were awarded a $5 million Rapid Accelerating of Diagnostics in Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) grant to study the barriers and facilitators of SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic testing and effective communication strategies to encourage weekly testing of a vulnerable school community. The ICTS Precision Medicine Function Leadership team played a pivotal […]
Patricia Cavazos, PhD awarded STTR grant
As a result of her Venture Café session titled “Mobile Tools to Assess Health and Wellness” in February 2019, Dr. Patricia Cavazos-Rehg and collaborator Micah Goodman secured a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant to develop a mobile application to support patients who misuse opioids with accessible, useful feedback, all while gathering real-time data that […]
Dustin Baldridge, MD, PhD, Awarded K08
Congratulations to our client Dustin Baldridge, MD, PhD on his K08 award, titled “Harnessing Missense Variants of Unknown Significance in Translational Discovery.” Dr. Baldridge gave us this comment about ICTS Precision Medicine Research Development Services: The Research Forum experience and the advice I received from members of the Precision Medicine Team were extremely helpful in […]