James Gern, MD, professor, Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, was recently awarded U19 Opportunity Funds from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) via the University of California-San Diego. His project, titled “AADCRC RNA sequencing core for airway epithelial cells,” is a collaboration with program members Nora Barrett, MD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Steven Ziegler, PhD, of Benaroya Research Institute. The team hypothesizes that combining and analyzing bulk and single cell RNA sequencing data sets from multiple centers will identify a comprehensive epithelial cell transcriptome with multiple uses for AADCRC investigators. The one-year project was funded in the amount of $46,539 total project costs.