Research nonprofits Phenome Health and the Buck Institute have landed up to $52 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health.
The money, which will be allocated based on hitting milestones, will help the organizations use analytics and artificial intelligence to predict and prevent disease, a project dubbed Personalized Analytics for Transforming Health (PATH). According to Simon Evans, chief operations officer at Seattle-based Phenome Health, the organization’s research includes everything from blood samples to gut microbiome samples to wearables that track sleep and activity.
“We do all of this to amass data to model the health of a person using computerized models,” Evans said. “All of this data comes together to really give a much more global picture of an individual and helps to guide personalized medicine.”