NIH’s All of Us program: Where are we now?

The vision is ambitious: Enroll 1 million people in the NIH’s All of Us Research program, whose goal is to make personalized medicine a reality for everyone. That means ensuring that more than half of participants come from communities historically underrepresented in biomedical research. A year after its launch, 230,000 people have joined, 80% of whom belong to those groups, a new progress reportsays. Participants share their health data through electronic health records; physical measurements; blood, urine, and saliva samples; and Fitbit devices. In the future, that could also mean genetic sequencing of those samples. The hope is to discover clues that predict disease, how to treat it, and how to develop new therapies — for all of us.