# Dissemination and Coordinating Center for the SCGE Consortium

> **NIH NIH U24** · MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN · 2020 · $4,220,237

## Abstract

The goal of the NIH Common Fund's Somatic Cell Genome Editing (SCGE) program is to
advance technologies and models that will lead to the translation of genome editing into the
clinic to create new therapeutic strategies for treating both patients with rare genetic diseases,
and those with common diseases. The SCGE Dissemination and Coordinating Center (DCC)
will serve as the hub to promote these novel strategies and technologies to design, test, and
implement approaches to treat these diseases. The SCGE DCC will support the SCGE
Consortium members and work cooperatively with all groups to facilitate their scientific
endeavors. To accomplish this goal, the DCC will 1) develop modes of communication for
project interaction, 2) build pipelines and processes to collect, integrate, and distribute data
through the SCGE Toolkit, and 3) accelerate interactions and collaborations among the groups
focused on developing and testing new approaches. The DCC will create the infrastructure for
information transfer among SCGE projects, to promote partnerships focused on developing,
testing, and validating novel strategies to resolve genetic disorders, and to rapidly disseminate
the knowledge from the SCGE to the broader scientific community. To achieve this goal, the
DCC will develop a communication structure among the NIH SCGE Working Group and the
project leaders, coordinate regular meetings for consortium and subcommittees, build a project
management infrastructure, establish a Toolkit to disseminate results, track SCGE Consortium
inventory, manage the Collaboration Opportunity Fund to support the SCGE intra-consortium
partnerships, and develop educational materials. The DCC team will facilitate the administrative
activities to ensure that the scientific discoveries and overall program are successful.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9858391
- **Project number:** 5U24HG010423-02
- **Recipient organization:** MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN
- **Principal Investigator:** MELINDA R DWINELL
- **Activity code:** U24 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $4,220,237
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-02-01 → 2023-11-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9858391

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9858391, Dissemination and Coordinating Center for the SCGE Consortium (5U24HG010423-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9858391. Licensed CC0.

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