New centers to help understand biology, improve diagnoses of rare, mysterious diseases

The National Institutes of Health recently awarded approximately $6.8 million in grants to several research teams to study the biology of rare and undiagnosed diseases. The new grants support studies to better understand the causes and development of rare diseases and improve diagnoses. The funding establishes two new research centers - a Model Organisms Screening Center and a Metabolomics Core - and six awards to explore how specific genes and their variations may cause disease in UDN patients.
Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights - Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news