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July 20, 2021

TRANSPERS July 2021 Newsletter: New Deputy Director | TRANSPERS Study Top Citation in Genetics in Medicine | Aducanumab Controversy

News story - July 2021
July 8, 2021

TRANSPERS Awarded 5-Year NIH Grant to Build Evidence Base for Policies on Emerging Genomic Tests
March 17, 2021

TRANSPERS March 2021 Newsletter

News story - March 2021
February 11, 2021

TRANSPERS Publishes in Science: Should We Focus on Affordability or Value of Precision Medicine? We Need Both!
January 8, 2021

Genetics in Medicine Publication by TRANSPERS Analyzes Private Payer Coverage Policies for ApoE Genetic Testing for Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
October 26, 2020

JAMA Publication by UCSF Center for Translational and Policy Research (TRANSPERS) Finds Global Use and Funding of Clinical Genomic Sequencing Expands but More Data on Implementation Are Needed
October 15, 2020

TRANSPERS October 2020 Newsletter

News story - October 2020
August 14, 2020

TRANSPERS awarded NIH grant to tackle challenges of using precision medicine to identify risk for Alzheimer’s and related dementias
July 7, 2020

TRANSPERS Study Finds Increase in Coverage for Liquid Biopsy (ctDNA sequencing) for both Private Payers and Medicare - but Broader Pan-Cancer Coverage under Medicare
May 8, 2020

Set of Papers in Value In Health Address Methods for Moving Evaluation of Precision Medicine into Practice and Policy
September 12, 2019

TRANSPERS & UCSF P3EGS publish study in GIM, finding 71% of private payers now cover pediatric Exome Sequencing (ES) but no payers covered prenatal ES
August 23, 2019

Focus on big data and precision health
May 30, 2019

TRANSPERS JAMA Publication Is First to Examine Policy Implications of Emergence of New Model for Genetic Testing
February 12, 2019

GEECS holds annual meeting in Barcelona
October 4, 2018

TRANSPERS receives $2.3M in NCI funding
September 14, 2018

Value In Health September issue addresses challenges and solutions for assessment of the value of clinical genomic testing
August 15, 2018

TRANSPERS Researchers Find Increase in Private Payer Coverage of Whole Exome Sequencing in collaboration with the NHGRI-funded UCSF Program in Prenatal and Pediatric Genome Sequencing
July 13, 2018

Moving into the Next Decade of NIH Funding: UCSF TRANSPERS Receives $2.3M in NCI Funding to Study Economics and Decision-Making for Precision Medicine
June 12, 2018

UCSF Center for Translational and Policy Research on Personalized Medicine (TRANSPERS) Addresses Rapid Evolution of Genomic Sequencing in two Washington Post Articles
May 7, 2018

TRANSPERS Contributes Two Paper to Health Affairs Theme Issue; Reported Today in Washington Post
April 17, 2018

TRANSPERS publication in JAMA lays out health policy agenda on new CMS coverage policy for sequencing tests in cancer patients
March 29, 2018

Study sheds light on short-term cost implications of integrating whole genome sequencing into clinical care
December 19, 2017

TRANSPERS Director Speaks out on Access Issues In Health Affairs Posting
September 1, 2017

TRANSPERS to lead reimbursement studies in NIH award to UCSF