Article Excerpt: With $2 million, the Geisel School of Medicine and the Dartmouth Cancer Center are launching a new Center for Precision Health and Artificial Intelligence on the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center campus in Lebanon. The new center, which will be based in the Williamson Translational Research Building on DHMC’s campus, aims to bring together related research and clinical efforts across Dartmouth to use information about patients’ biology, such as genetics, medical history, lifestyle and environment to create personalized treatment plans and disease-prevention strategies in order to improve people’s health. “It is a very active domain of research,” Saeed Hassanpour, a Dartmouth associate professor of biomedical data science, epidemiology and computer science and the center’s inaugural director, said in a phone interview. “There’s a lot of promise.”
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