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Affymetrix Recently Obtains $2.5M in NIH Grants

Dec 29, 2004

NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (GenomeWeb News) - Affymetrix has won around $2.5 million through a pair of recent grants from the US National Institutes of Health, according to the NIH.

 

The grants, which the NIH said are effective as of Dec. 26, but that Affy had not previously disclosed, include:

  • $366,248 for research entitled "Das2: A Distributed Genome Annotation Sequence;" and
  • $2,100,004 for research into pathogen and genetic-element detection using microarrays.
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