The Rockefeller Foundation Awards Grant to LSUHS to Strengthen Genomic Sequencing to Respond to Pandemic Threat; Dr. Paul Kim to Lead Effort at GSU

The Rockefeller Foundation awarded $340,000 to former LBRN PIs Paul Kim (Grambling State University) and Jamie Newman (Louisiana Tech University) in collaboration with co-PI Jeremy Kamil (LSU Health Shreveport) to join the Rockefeller Foundation’s Pandemic Prevention Institute.

Thus far, 18 SARS-CoV-2 specimens with complete metadata from the GSU student health center have been sequenced in Dr. Kim’s lab and uploaded to GISAID’s EpiCov database.