Logo

HHMI Awards $10M to Promote Interdisciplinary Biomedical Education; Genomics to Play Role

Nov 22, 2005

NEW YORK, Nov. 22 (GenomeWeb News) - The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has set aside $10 million as part of an effort to increase interdisciplinary graduate education, the institute said today.

 

HHMI has partnered with the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering  and awarded 10 $1 million grants to  programs that support both physical and biomedical sciences, including nanotechnology, computational biology, and genomics.

 

According to HHMI, the recipients of the awards are Brandeis University, Carnegie Mellon University, Johns Hopkins University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, the Universityof California, Irvine, the Universityof California, San Diego, the Universityof California, San Francisco, the Universityof Chicago, the Universityof New Mexico, and the Universityof Pennsylvania.

Breaking News
The Scan

Study Links Evolution of Longevity, Social Organization in Mammals

With the help of comparative phylogenetics and transcriptomics, researchers in Nature Communications see ties between lifespan and social organization in mammals.

Tumor Microenvironment Immune Score Provides Immunotherapy Response, Prognostic Insights

Using multiple in situ analyses and RNA sequence data, researchers in eBioMedicine have developed a score associated with immunotherapy response or survival.

CRISPR-Based Method for Finding Cancer-Associated Exosomal MicroRNAs in Blood

A team from China presents in ACS Sensors a liposome-mediated membrane fusion strategy for detecting miRNAs carried in exosomes in the blood with a CRISPR-mediated reporter system.

Drug Response Variants May Be Distinct in Somatic, Germline Samples

Based on variants from across 21 drug response genes, researchers in The Pharmacogenomics Journal suspect that tumor-only DNA sequences may miss drug response clues found in the germline.