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# NIH Developing Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort
- URL: https://www.fdaweb.com/nih-developing-precision-medicine-initiative-cohort/
- Published: 2016-02-25T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-15T02:38:41.000Z
- Author: David McFarland
- Tags: Drugs, Devices, #legacy-id-D5134881

> As part of **President Obama**’s 2015 Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI), the National Institutes of Health says it is building a national, large-scale, research participant group known as a PMI cohort that will seek to extend precision medicine to all diseases by building a national research cohort of one million or more U.S. participants. A NIH [statement](https://www.nih.gov/precision-medicine-initiative-cohort-program?ref=fdaweb.com) says the cohort program will be a “participant-engaged, data-driven enterprise supporting research at the intersection of human biology, behavior, genetics, environment, data science and computation, and much more to produce new knowledge with the goal of developing more effective ways to prolong health and treat disease.”  
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> The program goal, the statement says, is to set the foundation for a new way of doing research that fosters open, responsible data sharing with the highest regard to participant privacy, and that puts engaged participants at the center of research efforts.  
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> NIH says it expects to begin enrolling cohort participants this year.