WASHINGTON, May 31, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Robert Califf, the recently appointed Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), will be presenting the opening address on the second day of the inaugural World Precision Medicine Congress USA 2016 (WPMC) presented by Terrapinn Inc. His talk will be at 9:00 AM on November 15th, 2016.
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The FDA recently developed a platform called precisionFDA as their portion of the federal Precision Medicine Initiative. They will be showcasing their efforts towards the new scientific paradigm in the keynote address, as well as highlighting some of the exciting work behind the precisionFDA platform.
This comes on the heels of the brand new efforts announced by the White House several weeks ago towards advancing precision medicine across several agencies, including the NIH, FDA and ONC.
"The interface between the FDA and the private sector will be vitally important if precision medicine as envisioned by President Obama is to become a reality in our lifetime," says Chris Hackett, Executive Director of the WPMC and Project Director of Life Sciences at Terrapinn. "I am absolutely honored to have Commissioner Califf participating and working with us at our inaugural show, and being willing to interface with a rapidly changing industry. I look forward to evolving our partnership in the coming weeks."
The Commissioner will be joining a roster of expert speakers on topics ranging from cell and gene therapy manufacturing to the internet-of-things (IoT) and cloud computing in healthcare. A few highlight speakers including Gary Palmer, the Chief Medical Officer of NantHealth, Dr. Murray Brilliant from the Marshfield Clinic and Mike West, CEO of BioTime.
The event is being held November 14-15th 2016 at the Hyatt Washington Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
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ABOUT PRECISIONFDA
PrecisionFDA will use an online portal to encourage collaboration between scientists. The goal is towards advancing quality standards, and achieving more consistent and accurate results from next-generation sequencing. Recently, they launched their first challenge, known as the "Consistency Challenge", which ran from February 25 – April 25, and they are currently analyzing the results.
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SOURCE Terrapinn Inc.