Center for Personal Dynamic Regulomes

NIH RePORTER · NIH · RM1 · $2,816,060 · view on reporter.nih.gov ↗

Abstract

Project Summary Tens of thousands of human genomes have been sequenced, but the central challenge is their interpretation. A comprehensive set of regulatory events across a genome—the regulome—is needed to make full use of genomic information, but is currently out of reach for most clinical applications and biological systems. The proposed Center will develop technologies that greatly increase the sensitivity, speed, and comprehensiveness of understanding genome regulation. We will develop new technologies to interrogate the transactions between the genome and regulatory factors, such as proteins and noncoding RNAs from single cells, and integrate variations in DNA sequences and chromatin states over time and across individuals. Novel molecular engineering and biosensor strategies are deployed to encapsulate the desired complex DNA transformations into the probe system, such that the probe system can be directly used on very small human clinical samples and capture genome-wide information in one or two steps. These technologies will be applied to clinical samples with genomic aberrations to exercise their robustness, and reveal for the first time epigenomic dynamics of human diseases during progression and treatment. These technologies will be broadly applicable to many biomedical investigations, and the Center will disseminate the technologies via training and diverse means.

Key facts

NIH application ID
9998029
Project number
5RM1HG007735-07
Recipient
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Principal Investigator
Howard Y Chang
Activity code
RM1
Funding institute
NIH
Fiscal year
2020
Award amount
$2,816,060
Award type
5
Project period
2014-09-01 → 2024-06-30