Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine and Seattle Children’s Research Institute (SCRI) in Seattle have been awarded a $12.5 million grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study variations in the genomes of normal cells that accumulate as we grow, develop and age.
The UW effort will be led by Dr. Andrew B. Stergachis, assistant professor of medicine; Dr. Jimmy Bennett, associate professor of pediatrics and principal investigator in the Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine at the Seattle Children’s Research Institute; and Evan Eichler, professor of genome sciences. The grant is part of a $140-million, five-year effort led by NIH to characterize the differences between the genomes of somatic cells.
