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Human Virome Program: Developing novel and innovative tools to interrogate and annotate the human virome (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (RFA-RM-24-009)
PI Name	Institution Name	Title
PARK, DANIEL JOHN	BROAD INSTITUTE, INC.	Computational methods for benchmarking and development of best practices for virus discovery and characterization in the HVP consortium
GILBERT, WENDY VICTORIA (contact) THOREEN, CARSON CORNELL	YALE UNIVERSITY	Function-based annotation and classification of uncharacterized eukaryotic viruses in the human virome
BHATT, AMI SIDDHARTH	STANFORD UNIVERSITY	Developing computational, experimental and ecological approaches to study integrated phages and their hosts
KAUFFMAN, KATHRYN M (contact) KELLY, LIBUSHA	STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO	Hiding in plain sight: integrating AI with targeted bench methods to discover and characterize viruses in the human body
FOXMAN, ELLEN FLESCHER	YALE UNIVERSITY	Leveraging primary cell and organoid culture to identify and map the human virome

Human Virome Characterization Centers (U54 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) RFA-RM-23-019
PI Name	Institution Name	Title
COLLMAN, RONALD G (contact) BUSHMAN, FREDERIC D	UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA	The Oro-Respiratory-Gut Virome Axis Over Space and Time
DAS, SUMAN RANJAN (contact) FISHER-HOCH, SUSAN P NORTH, KARI E SHAH, RAVI	VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER	Vanderbilt-coordinated human Virome Collaborative Center (V2C2)
KAPILA, YVONNE L (contact) CERHAN, JAMES R LAJONCHERE, CLARA M LEE, JANICE S PETROSINO, JOSEPH FRANK	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES	Human Virome Characterization Center for the Oral-Gut-Brain Axis
SABETI, PARDIS CHRISTINE (contact) WANG, DONG	BROAD INSTITUTE, INC.	Virome Investigation in Diverse Human Populations
SNYDER, MICHAEL P (contact) BHATT, AMI SIDDHARTH MASON, CHRISTOPHER EDWARD	STANFORD UNIVERSITY	VAST Center: Viromes Across Space(s) and Time

Consortium Organization and Data Collaboration Center (CODCC) for the Human Virome Program (HVP) (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) RFA-RM-23-016
PI Name	Institution Name	Title
WHITE, OWEN R (contact) HUTTENHOWER, CURTIS	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE	A consortium facilitation, coordination, and data management center for the HVP

Human Virome Program: Characterization of functional interactions between viruses and human and microbial hosts (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) RFA-RM-23-017
PI Name	Institution Name	Title
DANTAS, GAUTAM (contact) BALDRIDGE, MEGAN T	WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY	Functional characterization of viral-bacterial-human interactions during antimicrobial and inflammatory perturbations across different lifespans
HENRICH, TIMOTHY JENSEN (contact) TSENG, ZIAN H	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO	Whole Body Deep Tissue Characterization of the Human Virome
LAREAU, CALEB ANDREW	SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH	The Human DNA virome: from petabase scale to single-cell resolution
ROUND, JUNE LOUISE (contact) STEPHENS, W ZAC	UNIVERSITY OF UTAH	Antibody targeting of the virome
WYLIE, KRISTINE M (contact) ERNST, LINDA M STOUT, MOLLY	WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY	Dynamic changes in virome-host interactions during pregnancy and postpartum

Human Virome Program: Developing novel and innovative tools to interrogate and annotate the human virome (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (RFA-RM-23-018)
PI Name	Institution Name	Title
DITTMER, DIRK P	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL	Concentration and single virion analysis of the virome
EMERSON, JOANNE	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS	Establishing laboratory methods for quantitative recovery of diverse DNA and RNA viral sequences from human biosamples
ISMAGILOV, RUSTEM	CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY	Viral MEM: Viral Enrichment and Precise Stochastic Quantification with Microbial Context Preservation for Rigorous Virome Analysis of Challenging Human Samples
KYRPIDES, NIKOS C	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY	Advanced analytics for uncovering virus dynamics and functional potential
MCDERMOTT, JASON EDWARD (contact) WHEELER, TRAVIS JOHN	BATTELLE PACIFIC NORTHWEST LABORATORIES	Computational tools for illuminating the dark matter of the human virome

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