From waste water surveillance to open-source bioinformatics, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced 10 projects that will receive about $2 million in the first round of grants towards improving pathogen genomic surveillance and understanding disease threats.
This includes India’s Ashoka University, International Foundation for Research and Education, and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research’s (CSIR)‘s “Quantitative mapping of environmental to clinical AMR via DNA barcoding” project, according to a WHO note.
The fund was established by the International Pathogen Surveillance Network (IPSN) to support partners from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to build their capacities in pathogen genomic analysis, it added. The technology involved analysis of “the genetic code of viruses, bacteria and other disease-causing organisms to understand, in conjunction with other data, how easily they spread, and how sick they can make people,” it…