PARP Inhibitors, Prostate Cancer and a Promise Fulfilled
June 26, 2020, marked the 20
th anniversary of the publication of the first working draft from the Human Genome Project. At a special White House event to commemorate the results of this 10-year public effort (it was really more like 50 years since the discovery of DNA, but I digress), then-President Bill Clinton called the project “the most wondrous map ever created by humankind”, and touted its promise to detect, prevent, and treat disease. Obtaining that first sequence from one human cost about $2B and resulted from a massive global public/private partnership.
Today, you can get a full human genome for about $200 and we know the full genome of close to 2500 species.