MaRS Blog - Innovation and Commercialization in Canada � Blog Archive � From Collaboration to Personalized Medicine

MaRS Blog - Innovation and Commercialization in Canada � Blog Archive � From Collaboration to Personalized Medicine: "Recently published work by a global team of scientists led by researchers from the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research led to the first genetic predictor for colorectal cancer. Dozens more genetic studies are set to report findings later this year. For example, Pfizer is partnering with NIH on a $26 million initiative called the Genetic Association Information Network (GAIN). GAIN aims to determine the genetic causes of common diseases over the next three years. The information derived from GAIN will be publicly available to researchers world-wide. Unlike many previous gene-disease studies that yielded spurious results, the new studies involve thousands of patients and are likely to hold up."