The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) awarded a $325,838 Project Grant under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) to the University of Florida. The purpose of this 5-year grant, which began on August 9, 2024, is to develop new Bayesian and machine learning methods capable of modeling genetic interactions, including pairwise and higher-order epistasis, in order to improve phenotypic prediction and accelerate the discovery of novel genetic...
The University of Florida (UF) has been awarded a $533,920 Project Grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) to develop a nationwide digital training program called the "AI Passport for Biomedical Research" (AIPassportBMR). The program aims to upskill biomedical researchers in artificial intelligence (AI) through innovative learning techniques, providing them with the necessary...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859), provides $534,450.00 in funding to the University of Pennsylvania to support its Predoctoral Training Program in Genetics (GEN-TG). The program aims to recruit, train, and mentor outstanding individuals to become future leaders in genetic research, as well as effective educators and mentors. Key activities include integrating...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), under the Biomedical Research and Research Training (CFDA 93.859) program, provides $359,490 to the University of Florida to develop a suite of deep learning methods for "Single-Cell Genetics". The goal is to integrate cutting-edge single-cell genomic data into genetic analysis, in order to address fundamental challenges in disease genetics, including variant interpretation, gene...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), under the Biomedical Research and Research Training (CFDA 93.859) federal grant program, will provide $680,790 to the University of Florida to conduct research focused on linking gene function through comparative genomic and experimental approaches. The key objectives of this 5-year award, which runs from Jul 1, 2025 to May 31, 2030, are to: 1) identify missing tRNA modification genes, including the...
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) awarded a $329,646 Project Grant under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) to the University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) on February 1, 2025. The goal of this project is to support the timely completion of Ph.D. degrees by underrepresented minority groups and their transition into successful biomedical careers. Specifically, the objectives are to: 1) recruit a competitive pool of...
The University of Tennessee was awarded a $335,578 Project Grant by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training federal grant program (CFDA 93.859). The grant, which runs from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2029, will support research aimed at elucidating the chemical and biological roles of five-carbon (C5) metabolism and its relationship to cellular physiology and disease. Key objectives include: 1) creating new cell-permeable...
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) awarded a $736,344 Project Grant under CFDA 93.859 Biomedical Research and Research Training to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) with a project period from February 1, 2025 to April 30, 2025. The grant aims to cultivate a supportive academic environment and strengthen the scientific identity and career pathways for historically underrepresented and marginalized graduate students in biomedical research...
The University of Florida was awarded a $644,578 Project Grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute (CFDA 93.172 - Human Genome Research) to develop algorithms that will address challenges and fully enable pangenomics alignment. The key objectives are to: 1) create methods for selecting a subset of genomes from a large population that will achieve the most accurate alignment results, 2) develop a pangenomics scoring scheme to enable alignments from a pangenome, and 3) disseminate...
The University of Florida was awarded a three-year, $744,637 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will fund research from October 2021 through September 2024 on "Allopolyploidization, Niche Evolution, and Systematics of Central African Night Frogs." As described under CFDA 47.074, the Biological Sciences program aims to advance the field and strengthen the...