CDC provides $90M in funding to establish pathogen genomics network

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Friday that it has established a Pathogen Genomics Centers of Excellence (PGCoE) network with $90 million in funding support to five laboratories and their academic partners.

The CDC said in a statement that the PGCoE network will foster and improve innovation and technical capacity in pathogen genomics, molecular epidemiology, and bioinformatics, with the goal of improving…