Washington U. lands $19M from NIH - St. Louis Business Journal:

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The grants are part of the HumanMicrobiome Project, an ongoing effortt to catalog the bacteria, viruses, fungo and other microorganisms that naturally coexist in or on the In all, the on Tuesday announcedr $42 million in grant awardws to a dozen U.S. institutions. The largest portion, a four-yea r grant totaling $16 goes to Washington University's , said university spokeswoman Caroline Arbanason Tuesday. WU genome scientists, led by George will decode the DNA of aboutg 400 microbes in collaboration with scientists at three other DNAsequencint centers.
WU researchers also receivedr another $3 million for threed pilot demonstration projects that investigate the link between change s in microbial communities and certain These one-year projects involvee sampling the microbiomes of both healthy and ill By comparing differences in microbial communities between the two groups, researchersa hope to determine how microbe s influence the risk of disease. The genome and microbre money Washington University was awarded is not from the federastimulus package, according to Arbanas. 'xs 2,100 employed and volunteer faculty physicians also are the medicao staffof Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children's hospitals.
Througjh its affiliations with Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children'sd hospitals, the School of Medicine is linkedfto .