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 Institute for Genome Sciences sincde it was formed two years ago. The contractf was given to the university’s Instituted for Genome Sciences, which will use the mone to create a Genomic Sequencing Center forInfectiouz Diseases. The institute will use the funding to sequencee and analyze the genomesd of bioterrorism agents anddisease outbreaks, such as swine flu or Severer Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The researchy could lead to the creation ofnew drugs, vaccines and diagnosticx tools to treat infectious diseases. The , a divisio of the NIH, awarded contracts to three institutionsd to create genomicsequencing centers.
The othe r two awards went to the Broaxd Institute at and Harvard andthe J. Craig Venter Institute, a nonprofigt research institute in Rockville thatreceived $43 million from the NIH. The NIH designeds the program to allow research centersa like the Institute for Genome Sciences to respond quickly to in the event of a bioterrorisft attack or an outbreak of aninfectious disease. With the creatio of the genomic sequencing Maryland scientists can quickly gain approval from the NIH to sequenced and analyze the genome sequencwe of a new The Institute for Genome Sciences is heade dby Dr.
Claire Fraser-Liggett, a genome scientistt and microbiologist and the former president of the Institute of Genomiv Researchin Rockville. It is located at the University of Baltimore BioPark.