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HudsonAlpha Wins $12.4M in NIH Grants for Population Genomics, Pediatric Sequencing

The institute will apply long-read sequencing to the NIH All of Us program and conduct pediatric sequencing for cancer and birth defect studies.

Columbia, New York-Presbyterian Land $58.4M NIH Grant for Personalized Medicine

The Irving Institute, a CUMC partnership with New York-Presbyterian, will fund its precision medicine program and the development of new therapies.

UCSD Researchers Win Grant to Develop Extracellular RNA Biomarker Panel for Glioma
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The funding coincides with publication of reports from the Extracellular RNA Consortium outlining growth and challenges in exosomal RNA-based diagnostics.

NIH Awards $17M for Next Phase of Tissue Chip for Drug Screening Program

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – The National Institutes of Health has awarded $17 million to fund 11 research groups seeking to develop 3-D human tissue chips that can be used to predict drug safety and effectiveness, NIH said today.

Reaction Biology Wins NCATS Grant to Create Database of Epigenetic Drug Interactions

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Reaction Biology said today it has received a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences to create a database of epigenetic drug interactions.
Oct 22, 2013

NCATS Awards $79M for 15 CTSA Institutes

Oct 16, 2013

Albert Einstein, Montefiore Land $25M CTSA Funding for Translational Center

Aug 16, 2013

NHLBI to Fund Small Businesses Developing Point-of-Care Tools

Aug 13, 2013

NIH Awards $17M for Studies into Extracellular RNA

Jun 25, 2013

IOM Urges Centralizing CTSA Leadership, Expanding Collaborations in Program's Next Phase

Jan 2, 2013

NCATS' Austin Seeks to Tackle Big Bottlenecks in Biomedical Science

Nov 13, 2012

Washington University Gets $50M for Translational Center, Genomic Medicine

Sep 4, 2012

NCATS Leases Rockville Home for Pre-Clinical Studies Division

Aug 3, 2012

Weill Cornell Lands $50M in CTSA Funding

Jul 11, 2012

University of Michigan Wins $53M in Renewed CTSA Funding

Jul 10, 2012

NCATS Offers $110M for Clinical and Translational Science Centers

Jul 9, 2012

Texas Medical Center Lands $20M CTSA Award Renewal

Jun 12, 2012

More Big-name Pharma Firms Join NCATS Therapeutic Repurposing Effort

May 3, 2012

NCATS Launches Drug Repurposing Project with Big Pharma, Investigators

Feb 14, 2012

NIH's 2013 Budget Snips NHGRI by $1M, Favors Translational Science Center

Dec 28, 2011

FY 2012 NIH Budget Includes $577M for NCATS

Jun 22, 2011

Montana Lawmaker 'Troubled' by NIH Translational Center

Jun 13, 2011

HHS Releases $722M NCATS Budget Plan

Feb 24, 2011

NIH Presses Forward on 'Rushed' NCATS Plan

Jan 25, 2011

UPDATE: NIH Answers Questions, Concerns on New Translational Sciences Center

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Study Points to Tuberculosis Protection by Gaucher Disease Mutation

A mutation linked to Gaucher disease in the Ashkenazi Jewish population appears to boost Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance in a zebrafish model of the lysosomal storage condition, a new PNAS study finds.

SpliceVault Portal Provides Look at RNA Splicing Changes Linked to Genetic Variants

The portal, described in Nature Genetics, houses variant-related messenger RNA splicing insights drawn from RNA sequencing data in nearly 335,700 samples — a set known as the 300K-RNA resource.

Automated Sequencing Pipeline Appears to Allow Rapid SARS-CoV-2 Lineage Detection in Nevada Study

Researchers in the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics describe and assess a Clear Labs Dx automated workflow, sequencing, and bioinformatic analysis method for quickly identifying SARS-CoV-2 lineages.

UK Team Presents Genetic, Epigenetic Sequencing Method

Using enzymatic DNA preparation steps, researchers in Nature Biotechnology develop a strategy for sequencing DNA, along with 5-methylcytosine and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine, on existing sequencers.