EU and Canada award € 8.65 million to project to ease genomic and health data sharing

(Bar-Ilan University) The European Union (EU) and the Canadian government have awarded the international iReceptor Plus consortium € 8.65 million to promote human immunological data storage, integration and controlled sharing for a wide range of clinical and scientific purposes. The four-year project aims to develop an innovative platform to integrate distributed repositories of Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire sequencing (AIRR-seq) data for enabling improved personalized medicine and immunotherapy in cancer, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, allergies and infectious diseases.
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news