Junhyong Kim, Chair and Patricia M. Williams Professor of Biology, and Kate O’Neill, Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Perelman School of Medicine, have been awarded a four-year, $4.5 million Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP) grant. The grant is supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Common Fund of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Kim and O’Neill are leading a multi-disciplinary team to create a comprehensive resource for women’s health by documenting the molecular characteristics of individual cells in the female reproductive system.
“This is a wonderful opportunity demonstrating the unique collaborative strength of Penn,” says Kim. “The project marries the biology department’s expertise in single cell genomics with the incredible clinical research of the OBGYN group, as well as the interdisciplinary expertise of our co-collaborators.”
This grant, along with support from Penn Arts & Sciences, Perelman School of Medicine, and the Center for Research on Reproduction and Women’s Health, will fund creation of the Penn Center for Multi-Scale Molecular Mapping of the Female Reproductive System.
