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U.S. precision medicine research program releases genomic data

March 17, 2022

https://news.vumc.org/2022/03/17/u-s-precision-medicine-research-program-releases-genomic-data/

Paul Harris, PhD, and colleagues with the All of Us Research Program announced that their cloud-based platform includes genetic data for over 165,000 participants, along with the survey, EHR, physical measurement and activity, and Census data. This repository is poised to be a major resource for biomedical research in this country.

Harris, Paul, Biomedical Informatics

Multinational consortium reports COVID-19 impact on cancer patients

May 28, 2020

https://news.vumc.org/2020/05/28/consortium-covid-19-impact-cancer-patients/

People with cancer sickened by COVID-19 have a crude death rate of 13%, according to the largest series of data released thus far from a multinational perspective. The data on more than 900 patients, published May 28 in The Lancet and simultaneously presented at ASCO20 Virtual, also revealed cancer-specific factors associated with increased mortality.

COVID-19 Publications/Analysis, Shyr, Yu, COVID-19, Biostatistics, Biomedical Informatics, COVID-19 Clinical Trials

VUMC team creates COVID-19 research registry

April 23, 2020

https://news.vumc.org/2020/04/23/covid-19-research-registry/

Out of the electronic health records (EHRs) of patients seen at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, a team in the Department of Biomedical Informatics is creating a COVID-19 patient registry as a platform for research.

Peterson, Josh, Biomedical Informatics, COVID-19 Studies/Grant Announcements, COVID-19, COVID-19 and Epidemiology/Health Services Research

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