GENYSIS Funding
Funding Opportunities
Funding Mechanisms for Core Customers
The Office of Research Technologies supports the efforts of PIs applying for funding for partial use supporting a university core facility.
SOM Core Facility Voucher Program
The Office of Research Technologies and Core Facilities Advocacy Committee (CFAC) voucher program is intended for UNC researchers (from any school) to apply for up to $10,000 in funding to be spent at one or more SOM core facilities.
PPMH Pilot Awards
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Funding Received by GENYSIS
December 14th, 2023:
Dr. Michael Adams submitted an application to the Core Facilities Advocacy Committee (CFAC) voucher program and was awarded ~$3k to investigate if the diagnostic yield of negative commercial genomes could be enhanced by re-analysis of the sequencing data via the GENYSIS pipeline. This project will focus on identifying missed small copy number variants (CNVs) and variants in genes on the differential due to additional phenotypic data.
October 12th, 2023:
GENYSIS submitted a method development request to the Core Facility Advocacy Committee (CFAC) and was awarded, in conjunction with funding from Dr. Neeta Vora’s prenatal sequencing grants, ~$24k towards developing a long-read sequence analysis pipeline. This GENYSIS project will involve collaboration amongst multiple UNC core and clinical lab services, including culturing frozen prenatal samples in the McLendon Cytogenetics laboratory, DNA extraction at the BioSpecimen Processing Facility (BSP), long-read sequencing using an Oxford Nanopore (ONP) instrument at the High Throughput Sequencing Facility (HTSF), and bioinformatics support from the Bioinformatics and Analytics Research Collaborative