Epidemiology & Biostatistics PhD candidate Lauren Cruz selected for All of Us Research Scholar Program

Lauren Cruz, MPH, a PhD candidate in CWRU’s Epidemiology & Biostatistics program, was selected as a 2023-2024 All of Us Research Scholar Program. Ms. Cruz was selected from a competitive application process based on her proposed work in the genetics of primary open angle glaucoma in diverse populations.  The 2023-2024 program, which runs from September […]

2018 NIH All of Us Research Priorities Workshop

Unless you have been living under a rock, you know that NIH has launched the largest effort to date to establish a cohort in the United States.  Chatter about the need for a nationally representative cohort bubbled up more than ten years ago in a commentary by Dr. Francis Collins (PMID:15164074), then head of the […]

NIH All of Us Launches

It’s official—the All of Us Research Program launched on May 6, 2018.  For those of you unfamiliar with the All of Us Research Program, formerly known as the Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program, it is an ambitious effort to recruit at least one million participants in the the United States for precision medicine research.  Recruitment […]