Researchers looking to aggregate and harmonize genomic data—a critical undertaking that would empower translational research in pediatric oncology—will face technical complexities that exceed the challenges of enabling interoperability between electronic health record systems, said Jinghui Zhang, the St. Jude Endowed Chair in Bioinformatics and chair of the Department of Computational Biology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
The Biden administration has left NIH in a weakened state, intensifying politicization of science on Capitol Hill and eroding the bipartisan support the government’s premier biomedical research agency has traditionally enjoyed.
