The Hill News

Science is progressing at a rapid pace. The human genome sequence has been completed and evidence on how diseases occur at the molecular level is growing by the day. Researchers and clinicians have been steadily working to use this data to make personalized medicine become a reality. However, with all of this new information, these prospective breakthroughs aren't yet reaching patients as quickly as needed. In the coming year alone, cancer will claim the lives of over 550,000 Americans. To address this incredible burden, and to ensure that patients have access to the most beneficial treatments, the process for turning these scientific insights into safe and effective treatments needs to accelerate as well.
 
Our progress in understanding the specific pathways of disease has identified hundreds of new targets for potentially life-saving drugs that hold the potential to treat individual patients much more effectively.

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