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.