Q&A: Georgetown's Subha Madhavan on the Role of Translational Bioinformatics in Precision Medicine

Mar 24, 2016

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Precision medicine was top of mind in the translational bioinformatics component of the American Medical Informatics Association's 2016 Joint Summits on Translational Science, held this week in San Francisco.

Multiple sessions and panels were dedicated to describing ways the translational bioinformatics community already contributes to the space as well as opportunities for much greater participation as the White House's Precision Medicine Initiative and other projects take flight.

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