by Amirah Al Idrus in FierceBiotech on
Verily’s Project Baseline, which aims to better understand what it means to be healthy and how health transitions to disease, has launched in partnership with Duke University and Stanford University. The study will collect health data from 10,000 participants over four years.
The study will begin enrolling in the next few months and will take place at two sites in North Carolina and two sites in California. More sites are under consideration, according to a statement.
The project aims to establish a “baseline” for human health and will collect a “deep dataset” from each participant through clinical visits and interactive surveys and polls. Participants will also wear Verily’s StudyWatch, an investigational health tracker the company unveiled this week. The datasets will include a vast array of information, ranging from clinical, imaging and genetic data to physical, environmental, behavioral and self-reported data, according to the statement.
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