The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has announced a four-year, $416 million plan to expand its Genome Sequencing Program. An initial amount of $86 million annually will support basic research, new initiatives and technological improvements at three large genome sequencing centers. For the first year, fiscal 2012, the Broad Institute, Washington University and Baylor College of Medicine will receive $35.9 million, $28.4 million and $21.3 million, respectively. As sequencing becomes less expensive, the NHGRI plans to reduce the funding. Funds will also support research into Mendelian disorders. Together with the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the NHGRI will spend $48 million to research these inherited disorders. The Center for Mendelian Genomics at the University of Washington, the Center for Mendelian Disorders at Yale University and Baylor-Johns Hopkins Center for Mendelian Genetics will be funded at $5.2 million, $2.8 million and $4 million per year, respectively. The NHGRI will also spend a total of $40 million for five Clinical Sequencing Exploratory Research Projects to make genome sequencing information available for medical care. The National Cancer Institute will provide another $2 million per year. The NHGRI will also contribute almost $20 million through different funding methods to improve software to make genome sequence data more accessible.

Source: NIH