Earmark - Center for Proteomics and Nanotechnologies

Agency:		Department of Defense--Military
Bureau:		Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation
Account:		Research, development, test, and evaluation, Army (21-2040)
Certifying Official:		Deputy Comptroller Program/Budget
Contact Information:		http://WWW.DOD.GOV 703-697-5131

Center for Proteomics and Nanotechnologies

1 recipient will receive $4,120,000. This is a continuing earmark.

Year Enacted: 2005

Description: The University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, the University of Pittsburgh Basic Genomic and Proteomics Facility and the Windber Research Institute will collectively and collaboratively acquire additional proteomics technologies and work to produce optimized laboratory workflows and protocols to create a multi-institutional Proteomics and Bioinformatics Core Facilities. This facility will serve the proteomics research and bioinformatics needs, and any of the clinical applications of proteomics assays for researchers and hospitals throughout the greater Western Pennsylvania region. The services of the Proteomics and Bioinformatics Core Facilities will be offered through a common web portal, and optimized protocols will be published as they are developed.

Beneficiary/Recipient	Amount ($K)	Program	Type	Address
University of Pittsburgh	$4,120		Public Educational Institution	Pittsburgh, PA