TCGA Funding
The NCI and NHGRI equally co-funded the Pilot Project with $50M for the first three years. The NCI has committed $25M/year of appropriated funds for five years for TCGA Phase II. The NHGRI has committed $25M/year of appropriated funds for two years. The beginning of the second phase of the project coincides with President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009(ARRA), providing $153.5M of additional funding to the NCI beyond their appropriated funds. The Office of the Director of the NIH has provided another $25M of ARRA funds dedicated to sequence analysis and another $25M of ARRA funds in the second year of Phase II if substantial progress is made during year 1. In all, $150M will be spent on sequencing. Another $70M will be spent on tissue accrual, sample QC and biomolecule (DNA and RNA) isolation.
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