£28.5m in funding for Human Functional Genomics Initiative

  • Published 1 August 2024
£28.5m in funding for Human Functional Genomics Initiative

Funding will support functional genomics research across the UK and contribute to the establishment of a new functional genomics screening laboratory.

The Medical Research Council (MRC), in collaboration with the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), has provided £28.5 million in funding to establish the Human Functional Genomics Initiative programme.

It aims to advance our understanding of how genomic variation influences human physiology and how it changes over time and in disease.

 

Read more here: UKRI Press release