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ASU research efforts to improve human health will get $3 million in federal stimulus grants
Date:11/16/2009

Lindsay, who also holds the Carson Chair in the department of physics. "Our goal is to simplify DNA sequencing like the invention of the transistor simplified electronics."

The new NHGRI awards will stimulate groundbreaking research in studies mainly aimed at understanding the function of the human genome to lead to improvements in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human illness.

NHGRI has identified the development of technologies that can sequence a human genome for $1,000 or less as its Recovery Act Signature Project. Leaders of the federal agency believe that truly inexpensive genomic sequencing will revolutionize health and medicine, and Recovery Act funding will accelerate the Biodesign's research program in this area.

In recent years, ASU has had several ongoing DNA sequencing projects funded by the NHGRI. "We are very thankful for the NHGRI's support to drive innovation in DNA sequencing technology," said Lindsay. "Our technology aims to save costs because there is almost no sample preparation and use of costly reagents, and we will use a direct electronic readout from a small, computer-chip-like device."

Nanotechnology and human health

In the other NIH-sponsored "GO" project, researchers at ASU will improve the detection and assessment of potential health risks of engineered nanomaterials in water, food, commercial products and biological samples.

The ASU team will be led by professor Paul Westerhoff, interim director of the School of Sustainability and the Built Environment, a part of ASU's Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. Researchers at the Colorado School of Mines will work on the project with Westerhoff's team.

They will be supported by a grant of more than $1.2 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The project is part of a larger endeavor involving a consortium of research teams based at 12 universities and other research institutions
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