2020 U-M Precision Health Virtual Symposium: At the Intersection of Research and Community

Keynote: “How BioVU Has Used Community Engagement in Its Development and Growth”

A video segment of the 2020 University of Michigan Precision Health Virtual Symposium, September 23, 2020, Ann Arbor, MI.

A Professor of Genetics and Director of both the Vanderbilt Genetics Institute and the Division of Genetic Medicine at Vanderbilt University, Nancy Cox, PhD, discusses the importance of community engagement in developing BioVU, the biobank at Vanderbilt University. As an example, she describes BioVU’s project to create induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from blood samples left over after clinical tests are ordered. There were several presentations to the community to explain this idea, to present preliminary results, and to explain how iPSCs and how cells differentiated from iPSCs could be used in research.