Researchers Expand Efforts to Explore Functional Landscape of the Human Genome: $80 Million Grants from National Institutes of Health (NIH)
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced grants totaling more than $80 million over the next four years to expand the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, which in its pilot phase yielded provocative new insights into the organization and function of the human genome.