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Jointly awarded by the Columbia Precision Medicine Initiative (CPMI), the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC), and the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, the Precision Medicine Pilot Grants underscore Columbia University’s commitment to supporting diverse, cross-disciplinary research targeting the promise of precision medicine. Four teams will receive a one-year $100,000 grant to support their research. One of the projects is being led by DSB principal investigator Chaolin Zhang, PhD along with Harris Wang, PhD.
Harris Wang, Systems Biology, will receive $984,251 over three years for a subaward from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for "Multi-functional, survivable ELMs grown from programmable fungal-bacteria consortia."
Andrea Califano, Systems Biology, will recieve $666,667 over two years from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for "Chan Zuckerberg Biohub New York Leadership Gift."
Chaolin Zhang, Systems Biology: $703,721 over one year for a subaward from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for "Developing RNA therapeutics for rare neurodevelopmental disorders."
Xuebing Wu, PhD will receive: $402,500 over one year from the Cure Alzheimer's Fund for "Noncoding translation feedback loop in Alzheimer's Disease."