Genome Medicine


Musings

Musings on genome medicine: the Obama effect redux

David G Nathan* and Stuart H Orkin

Author Affiliations

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA

For all author emails, please log on.

Genome Medicine 2009, 1:86 doi:10.1186/gm86

Published: 11 September 2009

Abstract

From the point of view of genome medicine, Barack Obama has made two vital policy decisions: he has chosen a new director of the National Institutes of Health, and his proposed change in United States healthcare policy will have profound effects on genome medicine and, indeed, all of academic medicine.