Research Funding
News on research grants, RFPs, government funding trends in genetics, genomics, and molecular diagnostics.
BioMark Diagnostics Nabs Canadian Funding for Lung Cancer Liquid Biopsy
The company is developing a metabolomic assay for early detection of lung cancer with academic collaborators at the University of Alberta.
Israeli Government Extends CRISPR-IL Consortium With $14.5M in New Funding
The second 18-month phase of the program to develop AI technologies for gene editing seeks to validate and refine software developed since last year.
Illumina Donates Sequencing Consumables, Cloud-Based Bioinformatics to Canadian COVID-19 Projects
The donation will support HostSeq, part of Canada's COVID-19 Genomics Network (CanCoGeN), to identify biomarkers and support development of therapeutics.
DNAe, Imperial College London, U of Leicester to Develop NGS-Based Breast Cancer Monitoring Test
The project comes with an Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership award, which formalizes a collaboration between DNAe and Imperial College London.
NIH SenNet Program to Map Rare Senescent Cells Implicated in Human Health
The program will help scientists look for ways to utilize the beneficial effects of senescent cells while suppressing their harmful effects.