美国杰克逊实验室获NIH 1000万美元资助用于建立精密遗传学研究中心

  昨日，美国杰克逊实验室(Jackson Laboratory)宣布它们将受到来自NIH资助的大约1000万美元用于建立精密的遗传学研究中心，该中心或将充当研究者工作的多学院网络中心来进行精密疾病模型的开发。
  这笔资金将在未来5年时间里提供，其可以帮助该遗传学研究中心建立新型疾病模型的制造过程及流水线、数据库、以及提供相关的研究数据；由杰克逊实验室所共享的模型被证明可以有效加速研究向医疗效益福利的过渡。
  该精密遗传学研究中心包括来自英国埃默里大学、加利福尼亚大学、哥伦比亚大学等大学的遗传学家、分子及计算机生物学家以及临床医生等。
  “NIH资助资金中的200万美元在第一年将用于进行6项研究计划，重点改善疾病模型的精确性以及临床前流水线的效率。”杰克逊实验室的研究者说道。（转化医学网360zhyx.com）
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The Jackson Laboratory announced yesterday that it has received a roughly $10 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish the Center for Precision Genetics, which will act as the hub of a multi-institute network of investigators working to develop precision models of disease.

The funding, which will be provided over five years, will enable the center to "generate new disease-modeling processes and pipelines, data resources, research results, and models that will be swiftly shared through [the Jackson Lab's] proven dissemination pipelines to accelerate translation to medical benefit," Jackson Lab President and CEO Edison Liu said in a statement.

The center will include geneticists, molecular and computational biologists, and clinicians from Emory University; Cedars Sinai Medical Center; the University of California, San Diego; Columbia University Medical Center; Nationwide Children's Hospital; the University of Massachusetts Medical School; and the University of California, San Francisco.

The first year's funding of nearly $2 million will be used to launch six projects focused on improving the precision of disease models and the efficiency of preclinical pipelines, the Jackson Lab said.