University of Arizona
City: Phoenix
Amount: $200000
Award Date: 2018
Duration: 24 months
Program Area: Bioscience
A partnership between the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix and the UA College of Pharmacy, leveraging electronic medical records, to use patient data such as age, weight, current medications, and sex, along with a patient’s genetic data, to improve initial warfarin dosing and reduce blood clots and bleeding based on under- or overdosing. This grant is awarded under the Flinn Foundation Translational Research in Precision Medicine Seed Grant Initiative to support research collaborations between basic scientists and clinical researchers.