 About CEGS The National Human Genome Research Institute has awarded USC $18.7 million to establish a center that will develop faster ways to identify genes that cause disease.
The USC Center of Excellence in Genomic Science (CEGS) will unite scientists from the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences with colleagues at the Keck School of Medicine of USC in an international effort to catalog human genetic variations.
“We will focus on developing and testing new experimental and computational techniques that will increase our ability to find disease-related genes and extract other useful knowledge from the human genome,” said computational biologist Michael Waterman, the principal investigator.
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"With this unrestricted grant, I plan to explore new directions in my research,” said Zhou, She received the Sloan Fellowship in recognition of her promising work in genomics and bioinformatics. |
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