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Awarded Grants

GRANTEE

Agenome, LLC

COUNTRY

India

MISSION PILLAR

Health, Science, and Technology (Research, Education, and Awareness)

PROJECT TITLE

Cancer risk in Smoking Subjects Assessed by Next Generation Sequencing

Project Summary

Assess cancer risk in smoking subjects by NGS profiling of circulating free DNA and RNA. Create a genome database of nonsmoking populations to identify new genes that predispose individuals to cancer.

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Expected Outcomes / Outputs

The endpoints of the research proposal are to develop a metric associated with cancer risk in smokers, and to demonstrate potential reversibility upon quitting

Actual / Current Outputs

Deliverable will be available at the end of grant. Work in progress. Pre-prints journal article on bioRXIP https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.05.124891v1

Approval

Feb 19

Project End Date

May 21

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