The College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources received an $8.6 million federal grant from the National Institute of Health for a new research center Wednesday.
The grant for the Swine Somatic Genome Editing Center will be dispersed over five years, as researchers from all over the country utilize wild pigs to develop delivery methods for gene-editing compounds.
The center, which is lead by MU professors Kevin Wells and Randy Prather, is the latest addition to NIH’s Somatic Cell Gene Editing Consortium which works to develop safe and effective tools for genome editing in human patients, according to the organization’s website.
Its mission folds in with MU Chancellor Alexander Cartwright’s translational precision medicine initiative which aims to increase research funding and develop projects where lab research ultimately translates into human treatment.
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