NEW HAMPSHIRE: Sequencing Variants – With NIH grant, UNH will help understand COVID-19 variants
Two COBRES from New Hampshire, Center of Integrated Biomedical and Bioengineering Research (University of New Hampshire) and Center for Quantitative Biology (Dartmouth), have received a second year of funding from NIGMS to coordinate SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance in New Hampshire and Vermont, including wastewater surveillance.
With the grant to UNH’s Center of Integrated Biomedical and Bioengineering Research — $790,000 from the NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences — researchers will sequence approximately 5,000 COVID samples collected from positive tests from UNH, the state Department of Health and Human Services, and Dartmouth College and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
“This collaboration leveraging expertise at UNH, Dartmouth and the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center will be critical to our efforts to manage the ongoing presence of COVID in New Hampshire,” says Dr. Fengxiang Gao, chief of the Bureau of Public Health Laboratories for the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services.