President Barack Obama today will ask Congress for $215 million to fund his vision for a million-strong cohort of volunteers whose genetic and health data will be used to develop personalized medicine. Obama today will lay out the details of his Precision Medicine Initiative, which he first introduced during the State of the Union address on Jan. 20. The National Institutes of Health, with $130 million, will spearhead the development of the national cohort, while the National Cancer Institute with get $70 million to focus on genomic drivers in cancer.
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