Congratulations to the UCHealth Biobank team including Drs. Christine Aquilante and David Kao. See the linked articles:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949774424009981
Our Biobank, in parallel work streams have
- Delivered their 1 millionth pharmacogenomic result based on Biobank testing of patients blood or saliva to detect drug-gene interactions to warn prescribers in our system to avoid drugs that may not play well with individual patient’s genetics. We believe we are now have the largest genome bank delivering these results for clinical care.
- Delivered over 1000 pathogenic variants (genomic risks like BRCA mutations for breast cancer and the like) so that patients can be aware and take preventive or screening actions.
The investments in this infrastructure began in 2014. Even though it seems like an “overnight success” this was more than 11 years in the making, yet another reason that long term, basic-science approaches should be part of our strategic scientific funding. These transformative technologies come out of years of blood, sweat and tears (pun intended) on behalf of our researchers and technologists and with the contribution of dozens of thousands of patients.
Congratulations to our hardworking, groundbreaking colleagues.
