Customized Therapy Research Gets Closer as NIH Database Expands

Biomedical researchers can start building studies as early as this winter using a database that’s part of the NIH’s push to transform health care toward customized treatments known as precision medicine.

“We’re providing all of this individualized data to be able to understand not just how to treat disease—which is sort of a more traditional model—but how to prevent it,” NIH Director Francis S. Collins told Bloomberg Law in a May 6 interview. “We haven’t had as much invested in prevention as this project can now make possible.”

Collins was referring to the All of Us Research Project, one ...