![The CLARITY Challenge [image courtesy Children's Hospital Boston].](http://www.cccblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/clarity.png "The CLARITY Challenge [image courtesy Children's Hospital Boston].")
Late last month, Children’s Hospital Boston announced the launch of the CLARITY Challenge – Children’s Leadership Award for the Reliable Interpretation and appropriate Transmission of Your genomic information — a “competition intended to advance standards for genomic analysis and interpretation and the reporting of clear, actionable results to clinicians and patients.” The winning research team will be announced in October and receive a $25,000 prize.
According to the contest website:
We are on the threshold of a revolution in patient care. With important insights emerging daily about the genetic basis of disease, and the cost of sequencing an individual’s genome plummeting from over $3 million to $5,000 in only the past decade, the time is rapidly approaching when genomic information will leap from the research bench to the doctor’s office and become a part of everyday care.
This new era opens possibilities for designing tailored, life-long strategies for maintaining health and treating disease that are derived first from knowledge of an individual’s genetic makeup, as well as the environmental factors that may affect each person’s health.
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