NEW YORK, June 30 - Rajinder Kaul, scientific coordinator of the University of Washington Genome Center in Seattle, has won a $250,000 SNP genotyping grant from Applied Biosystems, the company said today.
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The grant program, originally announced in February, also awarded three supplementary grants.
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Kaul will receive will receive up to $250,000 in ABI SNP-genotyping products to support his research, a project to determine complete patterns of DNA sequence variation from thirty chromosomes covering a one-megabase region around the gene mutated in cystic fibrosis on human chromosome 7.
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The three supplementary grant recipients will also receive ABI SNP genotyping products or services to support their projects. The awardees were Dawn Richardson, a postdoctoral fellow from the laboratory of Chris Jenkinson in the department of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas; Stephen Sawcer, a clinician scientist from the laboratory of Alastair Compston in the neurology unit at the University of Cambridge, UK; and Sue Rutherford, a postdoctoral fellow from the laboratory of Alan Shuldiner in the department of endocrinology, diabetes, and nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md.