NIH Offering $10M to Advance Gene Variant Science

Apr 28, 2008

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The National Institutes of Health will provide funding of $10 million over two years for studies relating genetic variations to biological mechanisms or disease causality.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse, on behalf of the NIH Genes, Environment and Health Initiative, will spread the money out over as many as 13 awards, NIH said.

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