Dr. Sumitra Muralidhar: Million Veteran Program on track to meet goal
The Veterans Affairs Department's Million Veteran Program has collected blood from more than half a million veterans. It's now the largest genomic database in t...
Dr. Sumitra Muralidhar, director, Million Veteran Program
The Veterans Affairs Department's Million Veteran Program has collected blood from more than half a million veterans. It's now the largest genomic database in the world. MVP hit the halfway mark in August, and is on track to hit its goal of 1 million veterans ahead of schedule. On Federal Drive with Tom Temin, Dr. Sumitra Muralidhar, MVP's program director, gave Federal News Radio's Lauren Larson a look at the program, how the data is managed and what she and her team hope to gain from the research.