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All rights reserved. Toward Precision Medicine: Building a Knowledge Network for Biomedical Research and a New Taxonomy ... COMMITTEE ON A FRAMEWORK FOR DEVELOPING A NEW TAXONOMY OF DISEASE SUSAN DESMOND-HELLMANN, (Co-Chair), University of California, San Francisco, CA CHARLES L. SAWYERS, (Co-Chair), Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY DAVID R. COX, Applied Quantitative Genotherapeutics Unit, Pfizer Inc., San Francisco, CA CLAIRE FRASER-LIGGETT, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, College Park, MD STEPHEN J. GALLI, Stanford University, Stanford, CA DAVID B. GOLDSTEIN, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC DAVID J. HUNTER, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA ISAAC S. KOHANE, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA MANUEL LLINÁS, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ BERNARD LO, University of California, San Francisco, CA TOM MISTELI, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD SEAN J. MORRISON, University of Texas, Southwestern, TX DAVID G. NICHOLS, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD MAYNARD V. OLSON, University of Washington, Seattle, WA CHARMAINE D. ROYAL, Duke University, Durham, NC KEITH R. YAMAMOTO, University of California, San Francisco, CA Staff INDIA HOOK-BARNARD, Study Director MIRSADA KARALIC-LONCAREVIC, Senior Program Associate CARL-GUSTAV ANDERSON, Program Associate ORIN LUKE, Senior Program Assistant AMANDA MAZZAWI, Senior Program Assistant MELINDA DIVITO, Christine Mirzayan Fellow v Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Toward Precision Medicine: Building a Knowledge Network for Biomedical Research and a New Taxonomy ... BOARD ON LIFE SCIENCES KEITH R. YAMAMOTO (Chair), University of California, San Francisco, CA BONNIE L. BASSLER, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ VICKI L. CHANDLER, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Palo Alto, CA SEAN EDDY, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA MARK D. FITZSIMMONS, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL DAVID R. FRANZ, Midwest Research Institute, Frederick, MD LOUIS J. GROSS, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN CATO T. LAURENCIN, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT BERNARD LO, University of California, San Francisco, CA ROBERT M. NEREM, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA CAMILLE PARMESAN, University of Texas, Austin, TX MURIEL E. POSTON, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY ALISON G. POWER, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY BRUCE W. STILLMAN, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY CYNTHIA WOLBERGER, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD MARY WOOLLEY, Research!America, Alexandria, VA Staff FRANCES E. SHARPLES, Director JO L. HUSBANDS, Scholar/Senior Project Director JAY B. LABOV, Senior Scientist/Program Director for Biology Education KATHERINE BOWMAN, Senior Program Officer MARILEE K. SHELTON-DAVENPORT, Senior Program Officer INDIA HOOK-BARNARD, Program Officer KEEGAN SAWYER, Program Officer ANNA FARRAR, Financial Associate CARL-GUSTAV ANDERSON, Program Associate SAYYEDA AYESHA AHMED, Senior Program Assistant ORIN LUKE, Senior Program Assistant AMANDA MAZZAWI, Senior Program Assistant vi Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Toward Precision Medicine: Building a Knowledge Network for Biomedical Research and a New Taxonomy ... Acknowledgments This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council’s Report Review Committee. The purpose of