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Juannan Zhou receives prestigious R35 MIRA award from NIH!

Assistant Professor Juannan Zhou has received the prestigious R35 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) worth $1.25M over the next 5 years. The MIRA awards provide support for early stage investigator’s whose research falls within the mission of The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS).

The study of the genetic basis for many complex traits is often obscured by the prevalence of epistasis, which can manifest in highly complex forms within diploid genomes. The awarded grant (R35GM154908) aims to leverage the latest advances in artificial intelligence to develop a suite of inference methods for making accurate phenotypic predictions and gaining mechanistic insights into the genetic architecture of complex traits, with a particular focus on human health and disease phenotypes, as well as evolvability traits in model organisms.

Congratulations Juannan!