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Article: deCode garners $24M for study of infectious disease genetics.
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- Medical Device Daily
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- October 14, 2004
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deCode garners $24M for study of infectious disease genetics
By KAREN PIHL-CAREY
Medical Device Daily Staff Writer
Working to better understand infectious diseases, the University of New Mexico (Albuquerque) is joining with deCode genetics (Reykjavik, Iceland) and the National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR; Santa Fe, New Mexico) in a five-year research agreement.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a unit of the National Institutes of Health (NIH; both Bethesda, Maryland) awarded the $23.9 million contract to deCode, which will apply its population approach in its work with UNM scientists.
The monies ...