China Kicks off Precision Medicine Research

摘要

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced its precision medicine research plan targeting Chinese people on January 9, 2016.Precision medicine is a medical model for high-efficiency, low-cost prevention and treatment of diseases tailored to individual patients based on their genetic content.Headed by the Beijing Institute of Genomics under the CAS, a cross-disciplinary team consisting of researchers from multiple institutes will spend four years collecting genetic information of 4,000 volunteers.