Family Picture (IMAGE) University of Utah Health Caption At a White House Precision Medicine Initiative Summit, Matt Might, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science at the University of Utah, announced formation of a coalition of scientists from the University of Utah College of Pharmacy, School of Medicine, University of Utah spin-off Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Boston Children¹s Hospital and Harvard School of Medicine who will collaborate to find treatments for patients with rare diseases. His son, 8-year-old Bertrard Might has a rare genetic disorder. Although by definition rare diseases affect fewer than 1 in 200,000 people, as a group they afflict 10 percent of the US Population. Credit Heather Nan Usage Restrictions None License Licensed content Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.