A group of researchers led by a team at Oregon State University have received a $10 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish a Center of Excellence in Genomic Science where they will develop tools to modernize how medical knowledge about genetic conditions is captured, stored and exchanged.
The OSU team received the NIH grant at the same time the university is creating the Translational and Integrative Sciences Center in the College of Agricultural Sciences, where the research will be housed.
“The College of Agricultural Sciences is a leader in generating and understanding genomic, environmental and many other types of data,” said Alan Sams, dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences. “We are excited to launch this new center which will revolutionize how data is put to work to advance understanding of the genetic improvement of crops, health and medicine, remote sensing, modeling environmental change, and artificial intelligence.”