Northwest Institute of Genetic Medicine Request for Applications
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The "Northwest Institute of Genetic Medicine" (NWIGM) is funded through the Washington State Life Sciences Discovery Fund (LSDF). NWIGM brings together scientists at the University of Washington, Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Group Health Center for Health Studies, and other partner institutions in the Puget Sound region and in the WWAMI states. The Institute's mission is to understand the association of genes with disease risk, and to advance and transform clinical and translational research. The objects of these translational studies are to discover preventive measures, utilize effective application of existing therapies, and develop new strategies for positive health outcomes.
NWIGM is pleased to offer the opportunity to apply for Resource Access grants to assist investigators by initiating pilot data collection. These grants provide translational investigators access to support for grant writing, study design, IRB applications and consent form preparation through consultation with research coordinators, informatics and phenotype definition, genomic technologies, and innovative genetic and statistical analyses. A large biorepository of over 1500 DNA samples from Group Health Cooperative subjects aged 50-65 is available to NWIGM awardees. These DNA samples are linked to clinical and pharmaceutical records collected over decades. Applications are also accepted for investigations involving consenting or relevant ethical issues requiring access to Biorepository data. Plans include expanding collaboration with Group Health and the UW Medical Genetics Clinic to facilitate outcomes studies.
If you are awarded the NWIGM Resource Access Grant, you are required to acknowledge this support with the following verbiage:
This investigation was provided (Biorepository/Regulatory/Biostatistical/Bio-Informatic/Clinical Genomics and/or Genomic Technology) support through the University of Washington Northwest Institute of Genetic Medicine from Washington State Life Sciences Discovery funds (grant 265508).
