NIH funding
Verily-led Consortium Receives $4.8M in NIH Funding to Build Data Analysis Platform
The consortium will build a centralized portal to analyze data on disease-associated genes, cells, and tissues from the Accelerating Medicines Partnership.
NIH Awards $27M for Genomics-Enabled Learning Health System Network
The agency has committed $5.4 million for the first year of the five-year program to establish a network to analyze and improve how genomic information is integrated into patient care.
Phenomix Sciences Closes $5.5M Series A Round, Gets $2.3M NIH Grant
The company recently launched a multiomics blood test that is designed to identify three different obesity phenotypes to help guide weight loss treatments.
White House Unveils ADAPT Program to Advance Biomarker-Guided Cancer Treatment
As part of ARPA-H, ADAPT will fund research into biomarker strategies that adapt to changing tumor biology and ways to translate them into clinical trials.
Yale-Led Team Wins $40M in NIH Funding to Develop Gene-Editing Tech for Neurogenetic Diseases
As proof of concept, researchers at Yale, Rush University, and elsewhere will initially develop CRISPR-based therapies for Angelman and HIST1H1E syndromes.