NIH Challenge Grants in Health and Science Research

Amount Awarded: $24,800,000
Recipients: The Kaiser Permanente Research Program on Genes, Environment, and Health (RPGEH) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Project: Human Genome Analysis

This grant program will support research on topic areas that address specific scientific and health research challenges in biomedical and behavioral research that would benefit from significant 2-year jump-start funds. It is administered by the National Institute on Aging.

How are the recipients using this grant?
The genetic information generated by the project will include new data regarding drug metabolism and drug response, information that may help researchers to discover genetic factors that explain differences between people in response to medications. This would in turn help doctors provide patients with the best medicines for them individually, with less trial and error, based on their genetic background. It may also help researchers understand why some patients with cancer or heart disease, for example, develop certain symptoms and other patients do not, insights that may lead to new treatments and, in some cases, new ways to lessen the severity or even prevent disease.

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