UC Davis researchers have used a hepatitis E capsid to deliver CRISPR-Cas9 editing to gut cells in mice. The technique could allow patients to take a genome editing therapy by mouth. (Image by R. Holland Cheng).

NIH Award Supporting the Somatic Cell Genome Editing Consortium

by Elizabeth M Georgian
April 12, 2021

The NIH has allocated US$190 million over 6 years in support of the Somatic Cell Genome Editing (SCGE) Consortium, which now includes 72 principal investigators from 38 institutions that are pursuing 45 distinct but well-integrated projects. The Genome Center professor David Segal is part of three projects at UC Davis, along with Alice Tarantal, Dennis Hartigan-O'Connor, Kit Lam, and R. Holland Cheng. A paper describing this effort appears in the April 8, 2021 issue of Nature.

Read the press release here on Egghead.

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