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Seattle Children's Hospital leads $23.7 million NIH grant to study gene repair
Date:9/6/2007

avid Baker, PhD, Nancy Maizels, PhD, and Raymond J. Monnat, MD, from the UWSOM, and Hans-Peter Kiem, MD, and Barry Stoddard, PhD, from the Hutchinson Center.

The Northwest Genome Engineering Consortium builds upon the tradition of Seattles previous bone marrow transplant work and related biotech research in our region, firmly placing Childrens Hospital, UWSOM and the Hutchinson Center at the epicenter of groundbreaking genetic developments that will impact the medicine of tomorrow, said Stapleton.

The NIH Roadmap for Medical Research has awarded these significant grants to only nine interdisciplinary research groups in the United States. Each project integrates aspects of different disciplines to address complex health challenges that have so far resisted traditional research approaches. The funding of these nine consortia represents a fundamental change in how biomedical research is conducted.

These programs are designed to encourage and enable change in academic research culture to make interdisciplinary research easier for scientists who wish to collaborate in unconventional ways, said NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, MD.


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Contact: Teri Thomas
206-987-5213
Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center of Seattle
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