Professor Lloyd Smith.
Chemistry Professor Lloyd Smith, together with other faculty at UW, the Medical College of Wisconsin, and Marquette University, have received an $8 Million, 3-year NIH grant to establish the Wisconsin Center for Excellence in Genomics Science.
Smith will be co-director of the center — other UW faculty involved include Josh Coon (chemistry) and James Thomson (anatomy).
Researchers at Wisconsin will focus on developing new technologies for analysis of proteins that bind to DNA.
Additional details are available on the web.