Grants / Funding

RNA nucleotide modifications have been linked to major diseases such as breast cancer, type-2 diabetes, and obesity. More than 40 RNA nucleotide modifications have recently been discovered in SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19...

Ceres Nanosciences, a privately held company that makes innovative products to improve the detection of low abundance analytes, including viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, has received a $243,000 Phase I SBIR award from the United States Centers for Disease...

A collaborative team between the University of Minnesota Medical School and Van Andel Institute (VAI) will soon begin a $6.2 million study that seeks to define the molecular linkages between aging and Parkinson’s disease — an approach for new treatment ...

Siamak Yousefi, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and the Department of Genetics, Genomics, and Informatics at the...

Virologist Mandy Muller, microbiology, recently received a five-year, $1.9 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) grant from the NIH’s National Institute for General Medical Sciences to continue her advanced studies into how certain viruses, such as those in the Herpes ...

ATDBio, a leader in complex oligonucleotide synthesis, and a research team at the Botnar Research Centre, University of Oxford, have been awarded funding by Innovate UK, the UK’s Innovation Agency, to improve single-cell RNA sequencing...

A Cornell developmental biologist studying the genetic blueprint for how a single embryonic cell develops into a fully formed, complex organism has won a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award. With a grant of $2,355,000...

Scientists at Queen’s University have been awarded grant funding by British Heart Foundation Northern Ireland (BHF NI) to investigate how heart cells change in people affected by an abnormal heart rhythm. The local heart charity has given £100,000 to Dr ...

With an unparalleled collection of rare biological samples and expertise in profiling RNA sequences, Duke University physicians and engineers are playing a vital role in a major U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) initiative to rapidly screen individuals for ...

ReadCoor, Inc. today announced a multi-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to apply their proprietary spatial sequencing technology to understand causes of childhood mortality. With this funding, ReadCoor will develop powerful methods using its FISSEQ platform – ...