Judy H. Cho, MD, front row, center, with members of the BioMe™ BioBank team on DNA Day.
With cake pops appropriately arranged in the shape of a double helix, DNA Day was recently celebrated at the Guggenheim Pavilion. The event, on Wednesday, April 26, was organized by the BioMe™ BioBank team of The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine and commemorated the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA in 1953 and the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003.
The team also recruited volunteers for its program, which collects de-identified DNA and plasma for research purposes, signing up more than 38,000 people to date.
“We are fortunate to have a great amount of diversity among our participants, including many Mount Sinai employees,” says Judy H. Cho, MD, Director of The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine and Ward-Coleman Professor of Translational Genetics. “Growing is central to our efforts in applying precision medicine to benefit patients.”