September 28, 2021 TRANSPERS September 2021 Newsletter: Payer Board Expansion | Aducanumab Controversy Blog in Health Affairs| Welcome Postdoctoral Fellow – Cheng Chen News story - September 2021
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
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
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
May 30, 2019 TRANSPERS JAMA Publication Is First to Examine Policy Implications of Emergence of New Model for Genetic Testing
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