# Institutional Training Grant in the Genomic Sciences

> **NIH NIH T32** · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · 2020 · $833,543

## Abstract

Abstract 
 
The Genomic Sciences Training Program (GSTP) is building the new generation of genomic scientists 
with strengths spanning across multiple disciplines. The training opportunities and environment we 
propose will enable our trainees to create and apply new tools, derived from technological advances 
that are informed by cutting-­edge statistical and computational approaches that functionalize diverse 
and large datasets. The new genomic approaches to biological and medical investigation demand 
scientists who are knowledgeable and skilled across several fields in effective ways that potentiate new 
insights or inventions. Accordingly, the emergence of new tools allowing for the creation and 
interpretation of large-­scale experimental efforts is what GSTP has focused on by the didactical 
interweaving of investigative approaches drawn from multiple fields (biology, genetics, physical 
sciences, engineering, computer science, and statistics) that were individually contoured for 
complementing a trainee’s core disciplinary focus, yet built upon achievement and knowledge within the 
genomic sciences. Given the incredibly rich scientific and engineering breadth of the University of 
Wisconsin, GSTP has been able to recruit outstanding trainees who greatly advanced mass 
spectroscopy, “omic”-­integration, computation, artificial transcription factors, and bio-­devices, while 
exploring new applications leveraging these advantages for cutting-­edge investigation into proteomics, 
transcription, metabolomics, and genome biology. These achievements and contributions have 
nucleated and grown a significant genomics community. This genomics community has become a 
gateway and central hub for groundbreaking collaborations reaching across departments, centers, 
schools and other training programs. We propose for the upcoming project period that we continue this 
focus, with added emphasis on innovation/invention and fostering of clinical applications, which will 
advance Precision Medicine. We request funding for 10 predoctoral and 4 postdoctoral traineeships per 
year. In the next funding period we will continue to recruit and train trainees who have recently 
completed their undergraduate or graduate degrees.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9951084
- **Project number:** 5T32HG002760-18
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
- **Principal Investigator:** DAVID C. SCHWARTZ
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $833,543
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2003-07-01 → 2023-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9951084

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9951084, Institutional Training Grant in the Genomic Sciences (5T32HG002760-18). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9951084. Licensed CC0.

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