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Nature Medicine 8, 97 (2002)
doi:10.1038/nm0202-97b

Pharmacogenomics research to improve transplants

Myrna E. Watanabe1

  1. Patterson, New York

In an effort to improve the outcome for organ transplant patients, New York University's School of Medicine has embarked on a pharmacogenomics study with a small, Florida-based company to exploit pharmacogenomic data. NYU's Mary Lea Johnson Richards Organ Transplantation Center will provide samples from several hundred patients—responders and nonresponders to immunosuppressive drugs—to DNAPrint genomics, to identify the polymorphisms associated with better drug responses.