MPMC’s new initiative, Toward Pharmacogenomics-Enabled Healthcare at Statewide Scale: Implementing Precision Medicine, is among the six interdisciplinary projects selected to receive the University's Grand Challenges Research Interdisciplinary Team Awards. MPMC will receive a two-year, $325,000 award to facilitate its project.
MPMC researchers conducted a survey of pharmacists-in-charge at Minnesota health care systems in September 2018, in order to begin assessing the overall readiness of health organizations in Minnesota to implement pharmacogenomics clinically.
Scientists from the University of Minnesota are teaming up with the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe (MLBO) in Onamia, Minnesota, to investigate aspects of lung cancer and nicotine metabolism from commercial tobacco that may be unique to the American Indian populations in Minnesota.