CAMDEN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Coriell Institute for Medical Research, a not-for-profit biomedical research institution and one of the world’s leading Biobanks, today officially launched the Delaware Valley Personalized Medicine Project (DVPMP) at a Congressional briefing hosted by Rep. Robert Andrews (D-NJ) in Washington, DC. The DVPMP is a multi-year study involving patient volunteers, physicians, nurses, scientists, ethicists and information technology experts that will allow participants to benefit from current and future advances in genome-informed medical practice, while ensuring that participant privacy is vigorously protected. Rep. Andrews, in support of the initiative, was the first volunteer to be consented and to submit a saliva sample from which his DNA will be isolated to determine his personal genome profile.
