# Core 1: Genomics Core

> **NIH NIH P01** · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · 2020 · $206,621

## Abstract

SUMMARY – GENOMICS CORE
The Genomics Core will assist all three projects, through the standardization of protocols and sequencing
platforms, thus resulting in shared expertise and economies of scale. This centralized resource will play a
coordinating role for all aspects of genomic data production, including automated library preparation,
sequencing, data storage and distribution. The Genomics Core will be led by Dr. Adriana Heguy, PhD,
Professor of Pathology at the NYU School of Medicine and Director of the Genome Technology Center (GTC)
at NYU Langone Health. She is an internationally known genomics scientist with >10 years running genomics
facilities for cancer research. Her lab is a state-of-the-art fully equipped genomic facility staffed with expert
personnel specializing in high volume Illumina deep sequencing and automated sample preparation for large
numbers of samples and a variety of applications including RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, ATAC-Seq, bisulfite
sequencing and chromatin conformation sequencing approaches. Dr. Heguy has worked extensively with Dr.
Skok and Dr. Aifantis during the past 4 years, generating key data featured in numerous high impact
publications. The specific aims of the Genomics Core are: 1) to standardize all sample preparation and
sequencing, and facilitate data sharing and storage among P01 projects and cores through high performance
computing (HPC) resources; 2) to provide chromatin profiling library preps (ChIP-Seq and ATAC-Seq) and
sequencing; 3) to perform chromatin conformation library preps (HiC, 4-C, 5-C, Capture HiC) and sequencing;
4) to provide exome sequencing and transcriptome profiling (RNA-Seq, scRNA-Seq) and 5) to perform whole
genome and reduced representation bisulfite library preps and sequencing. The Genomics Core will extend
beyond the current capabilities of the existing GTC, which is a shared resource partly supported by an NCI
Cancer Center Support Grant. The Skok and Aifantis labs will assist the Genomics Core with the
standardization of chromatin conformation library prep protocols, and the Melnick lab and Aifantis lab will work
closely with the Core to standardize genome bisulfite sequencing protocols as well. The Genomics Core will
coordinate sample workflow with the Pathology Core led by Dr. Giorgio Inghirami, which will supply human
cells and nucleic acids for the projects, and after sequencing, with the Computational Core, led by Dr.
Aristotelis Tsirigos, with which the GTC is already seamlessly integrated. There will be two half FTEs dedicated
to the generation of data for these three projects, and Dr. Heguy's effort at 10%.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9952347
- **Project number:** 5P01CA229086-02
- **Recipient organization:** NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
- **Principal Investigator:** ADRIANA HEGUY
- **Activity code:** P01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $206,621
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9952347

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9952347, Core 1: Genomics Core (5P01CA229086-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9952347. Licensed CC0.

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