OXFORD, United Kingdom--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oxford Nanopore Technologies congratulates our collaborators Professor Mark Akeson and Professor David Deamer of the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) on receiving a grant of $1.1 million, and Professor Jene Golovchenko of the University of Harvard on receiving $745,000 following on from a previous grant of $6.5 million. These grants were made under the US National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) "$1,000 Genome Sequencing Technology Development” grant programme.