EC Gives European Consortium $16M to Study How RNAi Can Help Rx Development

Apr 19, 2007

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) — A UK research institute will lead an €11.8-million ($16-million) research consortium that will study the potential uses for RNA interference in treating disease.

The Sainsbury Institute at the John Innes Center in Norwich said the European Commission-funded consortium will comprise 17 labs in nine European countries. The group will be called Silencing RNAs: Organizers and Coordinators of Complexity in Eukaryotic Organisms.

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