Research Funding
News on research grants, RFPs, government funding trends in genetics, genomics, and molecular diagnostics.
Rockefeller Foundation Funds Global Pathogen Sequencing With $20M, Forms Collaborations
The funding and alliances mark the first step in the foundation's establishment of a pandemic prevention institute, which will collaborate with similar efforts elsewhere.
NIH Earmarks $38M for Consortium Studying Polygenic Risk Scores in Diverse Populations
The consortium aims to develop and evaluate methods for calculating polygenic risk scores for specific diseases, particularly for people of different ancestries.
BioMark Diagnostics Gets $685K Grant for Lung Cancer Screening Assay Development
The company is working with Phytronix Technologies and academic collaborators to validate its liquid biopsy platform and lung cancer biomarker panel.
Immunotherapy Response Data Spurs International Effort to Uncover Germline Polygenic Predictors
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More than 45 centers are collaborating to uncover germline contributions to immunotherapy response and resistance and bring polygenic predictors to the clinic.
Geisinger Health System Wins $3.6M NIH Grant to Study Genetics of Cancer Risk
The health system will partner with the NCI to look for new cancer risk variants in a large population biobank, in the hopes of improving screening and care.