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$33,715,767

Department of Health and Human Services·National Institutes of Health

to NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH

biotechactive
WORK BEGAN2021-01-28·LATEST ACTION·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_UM1AI151958_075
Award description

AIRWAY TRANSCRIPTOMIC RESPONSES TO COVID-19 ILLNESSES IN THE HUMAN EPIDEMIOLOGY AND RESPONSE TO SARS-COV-2 (HEROS) COHORT

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Study airway transcriptomic responses to COVID-19 in a human cohort to understand disease mechanisms and immune responses.

Sub-sectors
covid-19-researchgenomicsnih-research-grant
Why this matters

Advances understanding of COVID-19 pathogenesis and may inform therapeutic development and pandemic preparedness strategies.

Supply-chain signal

Drives demand for genomic sequencing services, bioinformatics platforms, and laboratory reagents for transcriptomic analysis.

U.S.–China competition angle

Strengthens U.S. biomedical research capabilities in infectious disease genomics, an area of strategic scientific competition.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.002206.

Period of performance
Start
2021-01-28
End
2027-03-31
Status
activein 315 days
Sources

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