# Core C:  RNA Sequencing Core

> **NIH NIH P01** · YALE UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $350,000

## Abstract

Abstract
 Efficient and reproducible detection of immune cell states is paramount to our understanding of the immune
responses in the context of health and disease, such as cancer and autoimmunity. This service core provides
capabilities and a pipeline for the preparation, sequencing and basic analysis of RNA. This experimental and
computational resource will facilitate investigations of immunity in EAE mice that are deficient for TIGIT, PD1 or
both, the characterization of cells isolated from human biopsies or blood from patients with multiple sclerosis or
glioma, and the analysis of in vitro stimulated cells expressing TIGIT and/or PD-1 in Projects 1-3. The Core
leverages the strengths of the Love Lab at MIT with expertise in bulk RNA-sequencing and the Shalek Lab at
MIT with advanced approaches for single-cell RNA-sequencing. To facilitate the objectives of the three
Projects, two services will be provided: RNA-sequencing of bulk populations of cells, and single-cell RNA-
sequencing (scRNA-Seq). For the latter, methods for plate-based (96- or 384-well) sequencing will be
available, as well as a novel method developed by Investigators Shalek and Love called Seq-Well that allows
sequencing of 1,000’s of single cells in parallel in a manner similar to reported Drop-Seq methods. Another
aspect will be the capability to recover the T cell receptors from single cells. Together these analytical
capabilities in this Core will further the objectives of the Program by making deep immunological
characterization with single-cell resolution available for each of the Projects.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10219113
- **Project number:** 5P01AI039671-24
- **Recipient organization:** YALE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** John Christopher Love
- **Activity code:** P01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $350,000
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1997-09-01 → 2023-05-08

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10219113

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10219113, Core C:  RNA Sequencing Core (5P01AI039671-24). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10219113. Licensed CC0.

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