Kathy Hudson, Ph.D., deputy director for science, outreach, and policy, and Josephine Briggs, M.D., interim director of the PMI Cohort Program provided a Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) update at the Dec. 10-11 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Advisory Committee to the Director meeting.
The presentation covered recently released requests for applications, projected enrollments for the cohort, and a detailed timeline for calendar year (CY) 2016. The NIH also released a request for information on identifying or establishing a system(s) for conducting a physical evaluation and collecting biospecimens from Direct Volunteers for the PMI Cohort Program. Responses are due Jan. 16, 2016.