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Research stories, talks, funding announcements, and resource updates.
Read about early PRSweb releases, a decade of genetics research using electronic health records, and recent COMPASS work.
Stories, talks, and milestones
· Research story
U-M researchers aim to shorten the path to effective mental health care
U-M Research explains how COMPASS studies differences in responses to mental health treatment.
· Video
MGI 2024: Lars Fritsche
In this U-M symposium talk, Lars Fritsche reviews a decade of EHR-linked genetics research, including PheWeb and PRSweb.
· Funding
U-M announces NIMH-backed COMPASS precision mental health grant
NIMH awarded $17.9 million to the COMPASS precision mental health collaboration.
· Research resource
Democratizing genetic data for cancer research
Michigan IT covered the launch of Cancer PRSweb and its public comparisons of polygenic risk scores.
· Funding
Eye expert leads research to better predict blindness in patients
The University of Southampton announced Wellcome Trust support for an international study of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) progression.