A technical help webinar was held for potential candidates of the next Discover of Funding Alternative: The Scalable and Systematic Neurobiology of Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Dysfunction Threat Genes (SSPsyGene) Consortium: Assay and Information Era Facilities (RM1) (RFA-MH-24-145). Nationwide Institute of Psychological Well being workers answered questions associated to this funding alternative.
Awards beneath this funding alternative will probably be a part of a collaborative consortium with the long-term purpose of growing a complete phenotypic catalog throughout organic scales for genes and gene variants related to neurodevelopmental and psychiatric issues (NPDs). This useful resource will probably be made out there for broad use by the biomedical group.
The SSPsyGene Consortium will help multidisciplinary analysis facilities to optimize and implement systematic and scalable approaches for characterizing the developmental, molecular, mobile, programs, and organismal neurobiological perform of genes related to danger for NPDs. The ensuing phenotypic knowledge will probably be built-in throughout modalities, ranges of group, and genes to create a harmonized, built-in information base that types a strong basis of knowledge wanted to make sturdy inferences into potential shared and distinctive illness mechanisms.
To perform this goal, NIMH established and proposes to broaden a consortium of investigators at a number of websites and with broad experience within the areas of genomics, excessive throughput expertise, and neurobiology, linked collectively via a central Information Useful resource and Administrative Coordination Heart that serves to advertise collaboration and communication and to offer knowledge integration throughout the consortium.
Sponsored by
Division of Neuroscience and Primary Behavioral Science
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SSPsyGene Consortium – Ceaselessly Requested Questions (FAQs)
