Dr. Yidong Chen awarded a $3.7M CPRIT Core facility award

In May 2016, Dr. Yidong Chen was awarded a $3.7M CPRIT Core facility award (RP160732) to upgrade and expand NGS capacity and further accelerate the adoption of high-throughput technology in translational cancer genetics and epigenetics research at UT Health San Antonio and the South Texas region. An Illumina NextSeq 500 was acquired by funding support of CPRIT.

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