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Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) Professor Dr. Donald Johann Jr. has received a $245,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to purchase three Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) instruments, specifically a NextSeq2000 and two iSeq-100 desk top NGS systems.
Johann is also coauthor of a new paper published in Nature Scientific Data – “Ultra-deep sequencing data from a liquid biopsy proficiency study demonstrating analytic validity.” This is his second high-impact paper published in Nature in the last two years and the eighth paper on liquid biopsies and precision oncology in the last two years.