California Plants Its Own Stake in National Precision Medicine Effort

April 15, 2015 | Hot on the heels of President Obama's proposal for a nationwide Precision Medicine Initiative, California Governor Jerry Brown has committed $3 million to a California Initiative for Advancing Precision Medicine. While specific projects have not yet been chosen to receive pilot funding, the program will be administrated through the University of California system and may rope in partnerships with California-based companies like Google, Illumina, 23andMe, and Genentech that are providing enabling technologies for personalized medicine. SFGate