Included in BioWorld's list of the most impactful stories in 2015, which will be published later this month, is the expansion of the global activities in precision medicine. While the field has been growing for some time, boosted by cloud computing and big data analytics, it officially received its stamp of approval and funding boost in January following President Obama's launch of the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI), a research effort designed to pioneer a patient care model to accelerate the shift to personalized medicine. Read More
Research into DNA repair and the DNA damage response scooped up scientific accolades this year, with the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award going to Stephen Elledge "for discoveries concerning the DNA-damage response" in September, followed in October by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' honoring Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar with the 2015 Nobel Prize for Chemistry "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair." Read More
