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GENEWIZ University Grants

 

We're pleased to award a series of grants designed to support omics exploration! Congratulations to our grant recipients on this well-deserved achievement. Their cutting-edge research is bound to make an impact on the future of genomics, and we’re delighted to help fuel their scientific discoveries.  Check out some of the winning projects below!

PacBio Kinnex SMRT Grant: Advance your long-read sequencing

$10,000 PacBio Kinnex SMRT Grant

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Anna Dischler

Research Scientist/Lab Manager, University of Colorado Anschutz 

 Resolving Full-Length FMR1 Transcript Isoforms Associated with CGG Repeat Expansions in FXTAS 

 

$3,000 PacBio Kinnex SMRT Grant

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Jing Wang

Associate Specialist, University of California, San Francisco 

Temporal Dynamics of RNA Splicing During Human Brain Development 

 

$2,000 PacBio Kinnex SMRT Grant 

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Kanishk Jain

Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota

Characterizing full-length transcript isoform changes after acute PHRF1 degradation using PacBio Kinnex mRNA sequencing 

 


Sanger Sequencing Grant: Screen and confirm your results

$500 Sanger Sequencing Grant

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Priya Arumugam

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Penn State University College of Medicine

 Genetic variants in IRGM and PNPLA3 impair autophagy and lipophagy, reducing metabolic hepatic responses to exercise in liver disease patients 

 

$300 Sanger Sequencing Grant

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Courtney Clark-Hachtel

Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, Asheville 

Mechanisms of extreme survival: Uncovering how tardigrades can tolerate extreme radiation 

 


New Wizard Grant: For new to GENEWIZ applicants

$5,000 New Wizard Grant

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Vivek Khambhati

Graduate Research Assistant, Louisiana State University 

Engineering a Scalable Escherichia coli RNAi Platform Integrating SIGS and MIGS for Enhanced Durability in Plant Disease Control 

 

$3,000 New Wizard Grant

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Jonathan Dain

Ph.D. Student, UMass Boston

Identifying the molecular mechanism of HPAI tolerance in asymptomatic Mallards 

 


Gene Synthesis Grant: Optimize gene construction​

$2,000 Gene Synthesis Grant

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Wesley Leong

Visiting Undergraduate Research Fellow, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard 

Generative Design of Cell Type-Specific mRNA Splicing for Programmable Gene Regulation 

 


NGS Grant: Choose your sequencing path 

$3,000 NGS Grant

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Tamilselvi Elango

Research Scientist, University of Virginia 

Transcriptomic Profiling of Nano-Romidepsin Induced Epigenetic Reprogramming in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma 

 

 

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