Undiagnosed-diseases center to open in Boston

The National Institutes of Health announced it will expand its efforts to solve medical mysteries by creating a network of six centers, including one in Boston, that will each receive $7.2 million over the next four years. The new Harvard Center for Integrated Approaches to Undiagnosed Diseases will combine the resources of Brigham and Women’s, Massachusetts General, and Boston Children’s hospitals. A coordinating center at HMS will help route patients to centers across the country and facilitate the sharing of data among the programs. Joseph Loscalzo, the Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic and chair of the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, is quoted.

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