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August 2, 2007

Providence company's scientists get genome grants

PROVIDENCE -- Scientists affiliated with the Providence life sciences company NABsys Inc. have been awarded nearly $1 million in grants from the National Human Genome Research Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health.

The two grants, announced today, were among eight awards for researchers in the U.S. and Canada who are trying to discover more affordable methods of sequencing the human genome.

In an interview today, the president of NABsys, Barrett Bready, said the company’s technology would promote “personalized medicine,” allowing patients to learn their vulnerability to certain illnesses and pursue preventative treatment or lifestyle changes.

“It’s working on an incredibly important problem, some would day the most important problem in medicine,” Bready said.

-- Journal staff writer Benjamin N. Gedan

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