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Funding News - HLA Region Genomics in Immune-Mediated Diseases

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NINDS and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) request applications to participate in the HLA Region Genomics in Immune-Mediated Diseases Consortium.

The consortium is a cooperative research group whose goals are to define and catalog the association between variations in human leukocyte antigen (HLA) and natural killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) genetic regions and immune-mediated diseases, including risk and severity of disease, and organ, tissue, and cell transplantation outcomes. Identifying and defining the role of specific HLA-region and KIR-region gene variations in disease susceptibility or protection, progression, and severity will allow clinicians to predict disease risk and to develop targeted treatments and/or preemptive strategies. 

Application Receipt Date:  November 19, 2009

Potential applicants should contact Dr. Ursula Utz, program director, Neural Environment Cluster, NINDS; telephone: 301-496-1431; email:  utzu@ninds.nih.gov.  For more information visit http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AI-09-030.html.