Co-sponsored by the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research's Precision Medicine Resource (PMR), the Columbia Precision Medicine Initiative, and the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center.
The Precision Medicine Pilot Awards fund one-year pilot studies in precision medicine. Studies must be relevant to advancing precision medicine basic science, pre-clinical/clinical approaches to tailor medical care (prevention, diagnosis, and/or treatment) to the individual patient, and/or precision cancer research.
Example areas include, but are not limited to, disease mechanism studies, stem cell biology, genomic data, biomarkers, aggregated clinical/environmental data and/or patient-reported data to develop personalized medical care, decision support tools, new methods of working with precision medicine data and its integration with electronic health records, and new individualized approaches to effectively educate and communicate with patients.
Duration: One year
Award amount: $100,000
Number of awards: Up to five per year