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Funding Update: NIH Bioinformatics Grants Awarded Apr. 5 — May 2, 2013

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Project Title: Computational Tools to Analyze SNP Data from Patients with Mental Illness
Principal Investigator: Downey, Thomas
Organization: Partek
Project Start Date: June 17, 2009
Project End Date: Mar. 31, 2016
Funding Institute: NIMH
FY Total Cost: $598,866


Project Title: Genomes in Eye Disease: Methods to Query Variants Across Multiple Genome-wide Datasets
Principal Investigator: Gaasterland, Theresa
Organization: University of California, San Diego
Project Start Date: Apr. 1, 2012
Project End Date: Mar. 31, 2015
Funding Institute: NEI
FY Total Cost: $310,966


Project Title: Statistical Methods for Rare Variant Effects in Sequencing Association Studies
Principal Investigator: Lee, Seunggeun
Organization: Harvard University, School of Public Health
Project Start Date: June 15, 2012
Project End Date: Mar. 31, 2014
Funding Institute: NHLBI
FY Total Cost: $85,932


Project Title: Statistical Methods for Medical Tests and Biomarkers
Principal Investigator: Pepe, Margaret
Organization: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Project Start Date: May 1, 1996
Project End Date: Mar. 31, 2016
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $300,435


Project Title: Bioinformatics and Information Technologies
Principal Investigator: Richman, Douglas
Organization: University of California, San Diego
Project Start Date: Not Listed
Project End Date: Not Listed
Funding Institute: NIAID
FY Total Cost: $18,861


Project Title: Methods for Pathway Modeling with Application to Folate
Principal Investigator: Thomas, Duncan
Organization: University of Southern California
Project Start Date: Aug. 16, 2010
Project End Date: Mar. 31, 2015
Funding Institute: NIEHS
FY Total Cost: $506,437


Project Title: Combined Computational and Experimental Analyses of Gene Regulation by MicroRNAs
Principal Investigator: Wang, Xiaowei
Organization: Washington University
Project Start Date: Apr. 1, 2010
Project End Date: Mar. 31, 2015
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $270,864


Project Title: Genome-Transcriptome-Phenome-wide Association: A New Paradigm for Association Studies
Principal Investigator: Xing, Poe
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University
Project Start Date: May 15, 2009
Project End Date: Mar. 31, 2015
Funding Institute: NIGMS
FY Total Cost: $444,935


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