Seattle Institute Funded for Immune Study.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: January 9, 2003 | Copyright information

By Luke Timmerman, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jan. 9--The Institute for Systems Biology has netted another big federal grant, this time landing $12 million from the National Institutes of Health to help build an encyclopedia for the body's innate immune system.

The institute is a nonprofit research center in Seattle led by gene-sequencing star Dr. Leroy Hood. It is combining science with mathematics and high-speed computers to crunch data on complex body systems, such as how proteins carry out instructions from genes or how the immune ...

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