The universities each receiving a four-year, $7.2 million grant include Waco, Texas-based Baylor College of Medicine; Durham, N.C.-based Duke University; Stanford (Calif.) University; University of California, Los Angeles; Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University; and Cambridge, Mass.-based Harvard University.
The Undiagnosed Disease Network is designed to work with undiagnosed patients struggling with ongoing medical symptoms. The network originally began as a pilot program in 2008 evaluating hundreds of patients from around the world and diagnosing nearly 25 percent of them.
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