Advances in precision medicine — time for a new journal

Abstract

On January 20, 2015, President Barack Obama announced a major research initiative, “Tonight, I am launching a new personalized medicine initiative to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes and to give all of us access to the personalized information we need to keep ourselves and our families healthier”.[1] The announcement itself indicates commitment and high expectations. Indeed personalized or precision medicine (PM) is presently considered to represent one of the most important trends in medicine.