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‘We need precision medicine to make the next great leap in care’
December 2, 2019
Originally published in UC Davis Health Magazine Winter 2019

The regional burn center at UC Davis Medical Center routinely treats victims of car accidents, industrial accidents and other mishaps occurring in the external world around us. But the center’s experts have also cared for patients who have received burn-like injuries to their skin from a purely internal phenomenon — the side effects of prescriptions.

It’s the kind of insight that UC Davis is now working to create and pollinate — for the benefit of patients in our region and beyond — through a formal university initiative. The Center for Precision Medicine is a long-term research project that’s one of several formal Big Ideas at UC Davis — a series of forward-thinking, interdisciplinary projects or programs designed to positively impact the world for generations to come.

UC Davis Health among California institutions launching landmark precision medicine research study

May 1, 2018

The All of Us Research Program officially opens for enrollment Sunday, May 6. Led by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), All of Us is an unprecedented effort to gather genetic, biological, environmental, health and lifestyle data from 1 million or more volunteer participants living in the U.S. A major component of the federal Precision Medicine Initiative, the program’s ultimate goal is to accelerate research and improve health.

“We want to invite Californians from all backgrounds to be among the first All of Us participants at UC Davis Health!” said Alexander D. Borowsky, associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine who is leading the All of Us study with Katherine Kim , assistant professor at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis.

“Join our effort and help us figure out how our genes, the environment and other factors influence health,” he said.

2016 Advancing Pain Relief Symposium

November 30, 2016
Precision Medicine: Will it Deliver on the Promise to Improve Pain Medicine?
Dr. Frederick Meyers presented at the 2016 Advancing Pain Relief Symposium at UC Davis
UC Berkeley CITRIS Lecture

November 02, 2016
Precision Medicine: A CITRIS Inclusive Point of View
Dr. Frederick Meyers was the Keynote speaker for the CITRIS Research Exchange presentation at the BANATAO Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley, presenting on Precision Health.
Big Ideas Symposium

October 31, 2016
Precision Health: A New Paradigm for Health Care & Population Health
The Big Ideas Symposium is a one-day event where top minds in water, sustainability, human rights, food, regenerative medicine and more will gather to share their ideas with the university community. The objective of the event is to showcase ideas in a fun, fast-paced conference format where participants engage with UC Davis innovators and provide feedback that will influence the fundraising initiatives for the university’s second comprehensive campaign.

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