An Example of That Potential:
The Story of Meredith
http://fora.tv/2012/04/20/Congress_Unplugged_Phil_Bourne
Josh Sommer – A Remarkable Young Man
Co-founder & Executive Director the Chordoma Foundation
http://sagecongress.org/Presentations/Sommer.pdf
“And that’s why we’re here today. Because something called precision
medicine … gives us one of the greatest opportunities for new medical
breakthroughs that we have ever seen.”
President Barack Obama
January 30, 2015
Precision Medicine
Within biomedical research, many data types
Victims of our own success
Data production outstrips data handling and analysis
Major long-term changes are needed