Unchecked inflammation underlies complex immune-mediated conditions, including arthritis, resulting in significant morbidity and high costs. This project aims to overcome the barriers to integrate precision health data and accelerate its translation and application into practice in the context of inflammatory arthritis. Precision Health requires standardized data collection and integration including clinical, environmental, biologic, and administrative data to make treatment decisions for individual patients. The team will build the foundation for a ‘tool-kit’ to collect, integrate and analyze precision health information to facilitate optimal treatment decisions for patients with rheumatoid arthritis and juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Ultimately, they hope to identify clinical phenotypes to predict disease onset and transitions, then stratify patients into disease endotypes to customize therapies. Translation of this knowledge into practice will enable accurate diagnosis, rapid initiation of targeted therapies leading to effective and cost-effective care.
ActiveHealth
Expanding the Use of Genomics to Unravel Rare Diseases: Care4Rare EXPAND
Competition/Funding OpportunityGenome Canada - Canadian Precision Health Initiative (CPHI) Pillar 1: Generating population-level genomic data
Project Lead(s)/Co-Lead(s)Kym Boycott (University of Ottawa/Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute), Christian Marshall (University of Toronto/Hospital for Sick Children), Francois Bernier (University of Calgary), Jacques Michaud (Université de Montréal/CHU Ste Justine)