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Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Aims to Enable Infectious Disease Sequencing Globally

Jun 24, 2019
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Monica Heger

SAN FRANCISCO (GenomeWeb) – At the American Society of Microbiology's annual Microbe conference here over the weekend, Joe DeRisi, co-president of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, said that with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation the Biohub has awarded grants to research groups in 10 countries to begin implementing metagenomic sequencing for infectious diseases.

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