NIH to build cell map of human body

The National Institutes of Health has issued its first set of research funding awards for the Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP). HuBMAP is an open, global framework that will support research community efforts to map the adult human body at the level of individual cells. The project is planning to award $54 million over the next four years to support:

• Generating, standardizing, and validating data sets on cell organization and variability
• Development of new tools and techniques to construct high-resolution tissue maps
• Coordinating program activities, managing HuBMAP data, and building an atlas of tissue maps

An announcement of the grant awards is available at https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-build-detailed-map-cells-within-human-body. The project website is located at https://commonfund.nih.gov/hubmap