IMPaCT’s Predictive Medicine program aims to create a large population cohort of 200,000 people. “We want to know the role of habits, genetic susceptibility and the specific characteristics of the Spanish population and our environment in the origin of the main diseases and health problems,” says Marina Pollán. After the first year of the project, the progress of each of the working groups is shared at the Alcalá conference. Among other topics, the technical aspects of the project related to the design, the dimensions of the baseline exploration, the data management model, the collection of samples, the identification of the IMPaCT centers throughout the territory and the implementation of the pilot study of the project, which will be developed in three of the IMPaCT centers, are being discussed. in Palma de Mallorca, Madrid and Monzón (Huesca).
