All of Us Archive
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March 4, 2021
COVID-19 survey data added to All of Us platform
In December 2020, the federal government’s massive precision medicine research initiative, All of Us (AoU), made available to qualified researchers initial results from its ongoing COVID-19 Participant Experience (COPE) Survey, as well as physical activity and heart rate data collected from Fitbit devices worn by AoU participants. -
October 22, 2020
New tool to probe genetic mechanisms of disease
Vanderbilt Genetics Institute investigators have added a new method to the computational genetics toolbox. Their approach, described in the journal Nature Genetics, integrates vast genomics datasets to predict gene expression and facilitate discovery of genetic mechanisms underlying human diseases. -
September 10, 2020
Award supports integration of genomic data, electronic health records
Eric Gamazon, PhD, assistant professor of Medicine, has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to develop novel computational tools that integrate functional genomic data and electronic health records. -
December 11, 2019
VUMC’s Denny selected to lead national ‘All of Us’ program
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has selected Joshua Denny, MD, MS, vice president of Personalized Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, to be the chief executive officer of the federal All of Us Research Program. -
August 14, 2019
All of Us Research Program Takes Aim at Precision Population Health
Scarcely a year after its national launch, the “All of Us” research program, which aims to accelerate the prevention and treatment of disease, has enrolled more than 230,000 research participants — more than a fifth of its recruitment goal of 1 million people. All -
May 10, 2018
Launch event helps introduce ‘All of Us’ initiative to Nashville
On Sunday, May 6, Nashville played an important role in the nationwide launch of “All of Us,” the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) research program that aims to collect the health information of 1 million or more research participants. -
May 10, 2018
Vanderbilt plays major role in nationwide “All of Us” research program — press release