NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The National Human Genome Research Institute has issue three funding announcements that outline its plans for supporting the development of low-cost sequencing tools in the 2010 fiscal year.
The three grants under the "Revolutionary Genome Sequencing Technologies — The $1,000 Genome" program will award a total of $9.5 million in 2010 to develop tools that can help lower the cost of sequencing a full mammalian-sized genome. These studies could involve full-scale sequencing systems or components of the underlying genome sequencing systems, NHGRI said.
Through an R01 grant mechanism, NHGRI will fund between two and seven awards totaling up to $5 million in 2010 and again in 2011. Applicants for the program may seek funding for up to four years and for direct costs of up to $1.5 million per year.
An R21 program will award $2 million in 2010 and again in 2011 to between two and seven grants.
A third grant program, through the Small Business Innovation Research mechanism, will grant up to $2.5 million in 2010 to between two and five projects, while future funding amounts may vary.
Under the SBIR program, Phase I grants will receive up to $250,000 in total costs per year for up to two years and Phase II grants will receive up to $1.5 million for as many as three years, NHGRI said.