NIH Awards More Than $54 Million to Kaiser Permanente to Conduct Health Research

[CC...Conrad Clyburn (Clymer Grp)]

Colleagues,

... the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has granted Kaiser Permanente more than $54 million over two years through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to conduct health research on a multitude of critical public and clinical health areas. The bulk of this research will utilize and leverage Kaiser Permanente's electronic health records, the world’s largest civilian electronic health record database...

... The NIH has awarded 22 grants to Kaiser Permanente researchers in various regional centers, including a $25 million Grand Opportunities grant to conduct genotyping on 100,000 Kaiser Permanente members participating in the Research Program on Genes, Environment and Health, the largest population-based bio-bank in the United States...

... This genetic information will be linked to data on participants from RPGEH health surveys, disease registries and Kaiser Permanente's vast electronic health record database, resulting in a resource that will allow researchers to examine genetic and environmental influences on a wide variety of health conditions. The genotyping accomplished in collaboration with the University of California, San Francisco, will roughly double the number of individuals in the United States available to researchers for genome-wide association studies...

Read on at: http://xnet.kp.org/newscenter/pressreleases/nat/2009/101209arranihg...

ENJOY!

CC