Precision Genomics Collaboratory News

Announcing the Genomic Technologies Pilot Grant Winners

PGC in collaboration with CAGT offered pilot grants to investigators to develop and/or apply genomic technologies to significant questions in the study or treatment of human disease. These one-year, $20,000 pilot grants were open to investigators at all stages in their careers.

Pilot funding launches new wave of COVID research

The Duke University School of Medicine Precision Genomics Collaboratory awarded $15,000 pilot grants to young investigators in January 2021. These grants focused on COVID-19 research that broadly involved genetics and genomics. One year later, these young investigators are in the thick of cutting-edge research.

PGC Announces Student Pilot Grant Awardees

The Duke University School of Medicine Office of Biomedical and Graduate Education (OBGE) and Precision Genomics Collaboratory awarded 10 pilot grants of $2,000 each to SOM Biomedical PhD students.

Tune Therapeutics: New Startup Co-founded by Gersbach Launches with Pioneering Epigenomic Control Platform to Master Gene Networks, Treat Broad Range of Diseases

Tune Therapeutics, a biotechnology company pioneering the creation of epi-therapeutic medicines, launched today with its powerful and precise genetic tuning platform, TEMPO. This cutting-edge technology dials gene expression up or down to desired levels – with the potential to reverse pathways of cancer, genetic disease, and aging by changing cell fate and function at will.

Six PGC faculty named on this year's 'Highly Cited Researchers' list

Peak achievement in the sciences isn’t measured by stopwatches or goals scored, it goes by citations – the number of times other scientists have referenced your findings in their own academic papers. A high number of citations is an indication that a particular work was influential in moving the field forward.