Pennsylvania’s Penn State Hershey Dedicates Institute For Personalized Medicine

Circle Connections: New Products & Services Penn State Hershey has dedicated its Institute for Personalized Medicine, unveiling new space and equipment supported by $2.85 million in National Institutes of Health funds and $1.5 million in state tobacco settlement CURE grant funds. The institute's first initiative, which began in December, is development of a biorepository to collect, process, and store – with informed consent – blood and tissue samples from patients who visit Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and its outpatient practice sites. Together with information stored in the electronic health record, this secure bank of de-identified . . .