The Tar Heel State has made a name for itself as a welcoming haven for research, attracting almost $750 million in NIH grant funding this year. The state is home to high-caliber universities and innovative industry (not to mention a striped lighthouse), fostering a fecund environment for genomics and bioinformatics.
To compile the chart below, GT culled NIH’s grants-by-state database to find awards clearly related to disciplines under the systems biology umbrella, and for the sake of space, selected those with the most funding. This list, current as of late August, is not comprehensive.
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AWARD |
PI | PROJECT TITLE |
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ATTAGENE, INC. |
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$1,481,208 |
Sergei Makarov | Identification of TLR Signaling Network |
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DUKE UNIVERSITY |
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$2,843,468 |
Pascal Goldschmidtclermont | Comparative Approach to Genomics of Complex Traits |
| $1,794,134 | John York | Biological Oscilloscopes Spatio-Temporal Metabolomics |
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$1,689,075 |
Elwood Linney | Center for Environmental Genomics |
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$1,000,692 |
Margaret Pericakvance | An Integrated Genomic Approach to Alzheimer’s Disease |
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$975,766 |
Robert Cook-Deegan | Duke Center for the Study of Public Genomics |
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$745,377 |
Howard Rockman | Modifier Genes in Heart Failure |
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$735,034 |
Elizabeth Hauser | GENECARD - Gene Identification in Early Onset CAD |
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$733,062 |
R. Rand Allingham | Genomic Convergence in Primary Open Angle Glaucoma |
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$728,625 |
Joseph Nevins | Functional Microarray Facility |
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$597,842 |
John York | The Role of Inositol Signaling in Human Disease |
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$529,985 |
Thomas Mitchell | Microfluidic PCR Platform to Detect Microbial DNA |
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$529,367 |
Jeffery Vance | Genomic Screen To Identify Alzheimer’s Disease Genes |
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$498,638 |
Taoshih Hsieh | Function and Mechanism of DNA Topoisomerase |
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$484,382 |
Arno Greenleaf | Phosphorylation and Functions of the RNA Polymerase CTD |
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$445,115 |
Paul Modrich | Molecular Mechanisms of DNA-Protein Interaction |
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$299,589 |
Joseph Nevins | Oncogenic Gene Regulatory Networks |
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NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY |
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$1,303,777 |
Bruce Weir | Statistical and Quantitative Genetics |
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$434,740 |
Robert Anholt | Comparative Genomics of Glaucoma |
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UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA |
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$1,244,226 |
T. Kendell Harden | G-protein Signal Integration by Multifunctional Proteins |
| $1,119,290 | Darrel Stafford | Structure Function & Genetics of Coagulation Factors |
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$1,000,000 |
Christoph Borchers | Acquisition ¯ Ultra-high Resolution Mass Spectrometer |
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$958,049 |
John Ramsey | Nanotechnology for the Structural Interrogation of DNA |
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$911,457 |
Richard Superfine | Computer Integrated Systems for Microscopy & Manipulation |
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$559,433 |
Daniel Reed | The Carolina Center for Exploratory Genetic Analysis |
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$544,123 |
Aziz Sancar | DNA Excision Repair and DNA Damage Checkpoints |
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$495,339 |
Patrick Sullivan | Microarrays & Proteomics in MZ Twins Discordant for CFS |
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$327,375 |
Terry Magnuson | Allelic Series of Genomic Modifications in ES Cells |
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$326,659 |
David Threadgill | Functional Genomics of EGFR in Placental Development |
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$318,639 |
Jack Griffith | DNA-Protein Interactions at the Replication Fork |
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$306,700 |
Cynthia Gibas | Biophysical Optimization of Oligonucleotide Microarrays |
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$299,535 |
Joseph Ibrahim | Biostatistics for Research in Genomics and Cancer |
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$286,089 |
Rihe Liu | Identification of Caspase Substrates from Human Proteome |
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$281,117 |
Yi Zhang | Histone Methylation in Polycomb Group Gene Silencing |
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$281,050 |
Jason Lieb | Genomic Approaches to DNA-binding Specificity In Vivo |
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WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES |
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$753,156 |
Lynne Wagenknecht | Genetics of Adiposity and Glucose Homeostasis |
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$496,737 |
Eugene Bleeker | Genotype-Phenotype Interactions in Severe Asthma |
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$494,484 |
Michele Sale | Genetics of African-American Type 2 Diabetes |
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$491,063 |
Donald Bowden | Mapping Genes for NIDDM Nephropathy in African Americans |