Genomic Medicine Institute

The Genomic Medicine Institute (GMI) serves as the expert base for the principles and practice of genomic medicine as a single platform for scholarly activity (research), academic clinical care and outreach and education ultimately directed at genomics-based personalized healthcare. Thus, GMI research will focus on translational and clinical human genetics and genomics (also to include epigenomics and proteomics) which would be eminently applicable to the routine clinical arena. GMI is helping to coordinate genomics research across many disciplines such that inter-disciplinary research and healthcare are being enhanced.

GMI is a nascent institute directed by Charis Eng, MD, PhD, and is housed in the new Center for Genomics Research Building’s fifth floor, which has been specifically designed to enhance translational genomic medicine. Open design laboratory space is in proximity to the GMI’s clinical component, the Center for Personalized Genetic Healthcare, as well as to its Genomic Medicine Biorepository and the Genomics Core Facility. A unique training program that will prepare the next generation to be facile in the investigation related to and evidence-based practice of cancer genomic medicine has been initiated.