Kaiser Permanente health care provider has finally landed the money she needed to complete plans for a massive biobank of DNA. There has announced the receipt of a $ 8.6 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which should allow the company collect 500,000 DNA samples, as well as health and the donors of their environment. The goal is to uncover the causes and develop personalized treatments for common conditions such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
The extended biobank will be among the largest and will join several in Europe and Canada. It beats to the punch of the National Children's Study, which suffered delay after delay in the registration of 100,000 American children.
The biobank will be led by Catherine Schaefer, director of the Kaiser Permanente Research Program on Genes, Environment and Health, and Neil Risch, professor of human genetics at the University of California, San Francisco . The deposit already contains 0,000 DNA samples and hope to meet the 500,000 mark by 2012, now that financing is in place.
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