奧巴馬提議撥款2億多美元 研究精準施藥大綱
U.S. President Barack Obama wants to invest $215 million into a new health initiative that would help tailor medical treatment to an individual's genetic make-up.
奧巴馬總統提議向美國一項新的基因研究計劃投資2億一千五百萬美元。
President Obama will propose Friday the bulk of the money goes to the National Institutes of Health and its affiliate, the National Cancer Institute for the development of "precision medicine;" a treatment that would replace a "one size fits all" approach to medicine.
奧巴馬星期五將提議把這筆錢的大部分撥給美國國家衛生研究院及其下屬的美國國家癌症研究所，用於研製”精準施藥”，以取代目前所謂“一刀切”的用藥辦法。
A White House Statement said "most medical treatments have been designed for the 'average patient' a result, treatments can be very successful for some patients, but not for others."
白宮發表聲明說，大多數藥物都是爲“一般病人”設計的，結果對有些病患有效，對有些人無效。
The funding would be used to collect gene, chemical, lifestyle and other data from one million volunteers who would be studied to determine how genetic variants affect health and disease.
研究人員將用這筆錢來收集100萬名志願者的基因、化學反應、生活方式等數據，研究判斷基因差異如何影響到健康和疾病。
But first, the initiative, which is part of the Democratic president's 2016 budget, must be approved by the Republican-controlled Congress.
這項撥款是奧巴馬2016年預算開支計劃的一部分。該計劃必須得到共和黨控制的國會的批准。
Mr. Obama said in his recent State of the Union address that he wants "the country that eliminated polio and mapped the human genome to lead a new era of medicine."
奧巴馬在最近的國情諮文講話中說，美國滅了小兒麻痹症，繪製了人類基因組圖譜。他希望美國帶領世界進入醫學研究的新時代。
