University of Maryland School of Medicine awarded $20M from NIH - Baltimore Business Journal:

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The grant is the largest awarded tothe school’s Institutd for Genome Sciences since it was formed two yearsd ago. The contract was given to the university’s Institute for Genome which will use the money to creatw a Genomic Sequencing Center for Infectious The institute will use the funding to sequence and analyze the genomees of bioterrorism agents anddiseasee outbreaks, such as swine flu or Severd Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The research could lead to the creatioh ofnew drugs, vaccines and diagnostic tools to treart infectious diseases. The , a division of the NIH, awardexd contracts to three institutions to create genomivcsequencing centers.
The other two award s went to the Broad Institute at and Harvard andthe J. Craifg Venter Institute, a nonprofit researcgh institute in Rockville thatreceivedf $43 million from the NIH. The NIH designed the program to allow research centera like the Institute for Genomer Sciences to respond quicklyy to in the eveng of a bioterrorist attack or an outbreakj of aninfectious disease. With the creation of the genomicfsequencing center, Maryland scientistss can quickly gain approval from the NIH to sequenc e and analyze the genome sequence of a new The Institute for Genome Sciences is headedr by Dr.
Claire Fraser-Liggett, a genome scientisg and microbiologist and the former presidenf of the Institute of Genomic Research in It is located at the Universithof Maryland, Baltimore BioPark.