Press Releases
November 9, 2009
Researchers Complete Draft Genome Sequence for Cassava
A $1.3 Million grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will fund the next phase of research that is critical to global food security... read more/download(pdf)
November 3, 2009
GeMInA Genomic Metadata Database for Geospatial Pathogen Surveillance Developed at Institute for Genome Sciences
Scientists at the Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) published their research about GeMInA... read more/download(pdf)
November 2, 2009
Expert in Human Genetic Variation Joins the Institute for Genome Sciences
Scott E. Devine, a leading researcher in human genetic variation, has joined the Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS), a genomic research center at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM)... read more/download(pdf)
October 28, 2009
UMB Heads $12.2 Million Study of Chlamydia, Leading Bacteria Public Health Issue
Perhaps the most comprehensive, multi-institutional study yet of the sexually transmitted bacteria chlamydia is under way at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB)... read more/download(pdf)
October 1, 2009
Disease Ontology Project Awarded NIH ARRA Award from the National Center for Research Resources
The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a two-year AmericanReinvestment and Recovery Act... read more/download(pdf)
July 17, 2009
Microbes Take Center Stage
It's easy to forget that you're among leading academics when you walk into the Institute for Genome Sciences... read more/download(pdf)
June 23, 2009
IGS Awarded New HMP Grants
Researchers at the Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have earned three new grants worth potentially more than $24.6 million to study the microbes that live in and on the human body and how they affect human health... read more/download(pdf)
June 2, 2009
IGS Establishes Genomic Sequencing Center for Infectious Diseases
$20 Million Federal Contract Makes IGS National Resource for Genetic Information on New or Emerging Infectious Diseases ... read more/download(pdf)
May 23, 2009
IGS Work with Athena Biotechnologies to Study Disease Threatening Citrus Crops
Athena Biotechnologies (AthenaBio) has been awarded a second grant by The Florida Citrus Production Research Advisory Council (FCPRAC) to study a bacterial disease ...read more/download(pdf)
Feb 12, 2009
Institute Researchers Crack the Code of the Common Cold
Scientists have begun to solve some of the mysteries of the common cold by putting together the pieces of the genetic codes for all the known strains of the human rhinovirus. Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have completed the genomic sequences of the viruses and assembled them into a "family tree," which shows how the viruses are related, with their commonalities and differences ...read more/download(pdf)
