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.