Wen: The federal government established a research project with the ambitious goal of mapping the entire human genome 17 years ago. We found lots of stuff, but we didn't find what we were looking for, he says. Wen: This is not an n i m h problem. This is a problem of a health system that's badly broken. For me, the egregious piece of this is not that we don't have anything to offer,. It's wee got plenty of stuff to offer, were just not doing it.