You Bring Sequencing to Life
Our SMRT Grant Programs support outstanding research projects that advance scientific discovery with long-read sequencing. From the microbiome, to dancing dingoes, disease genes and beyond!
Calling All Scientists
Have an interesting research project that could benefit from SMRT Sequencing? Apply for an upcoming SMRT Grant Program to win sequencing from one of our Certified Service Providers.
Current SMRT Grant Programs
Upcoming 2019 SMRT Grant Programs
Discover the benefits for your research and explore the range of Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT) Sequencing Applications
| Research Focus | Application | Grant Opens |
| Human Biomedical Research | Open Now |
| Human Biomedical Research | Open Now |
| Microbiology & Infectious Disease | Multiple Applications | June |
| Neuroscience Research | Multiple Applications | August |
| Human Biomedical Research | October |
| Celebrate Advances in SMRT Sequencing | Multiple Applications | November |
Recent SMRT Grant Programs and Winners
 | 2019 Plant and Animal Sciences SMRT Grant Program – co-sponsored by Histogenetics Awarded to Susannah Sample of University of Wisconsin-Madison for her project to sequence the genome of German Shepherds. Watch the video abstract. 2018 Plant and Animal Sciences SMRT Grant Program – co-sponsored by University of Delaware Sequencing & Genotyping Center Awarded to Shawn Trojahn and Joanna Kelley of Washington State University for their project entitled “Identifying Transcript Isoforms in Grizzly Bears with Human Therapeutic Value.” Read blog post 2018 Plant and Animal SMRT Grant Program – co-sponsored by GENEWIZ Awarded to Arne Nolte of the University of Oldenburg and Fritz Sedlazeck of Baylor College of Medicine for their project to assemble the genome of the European cavefish. Learn more about this project 2017 Plant and Animal SMRT Grant Program Awarded to Bill Ballard of University of New South Wales and Claire Wade of the University of Sydney for their Dancing with Dingoes project. Learn more about this project |
 | 2018 Structural Variation SMRT Grant Program – co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota Genomics Center Awarded to Kristen Sund of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center for her project “Unsolved Mysteries: Sequencing to Solve Neurologic Disease with Structural Rearrangements.” Read blog post 2018 Iso-Seq SMRT Grant Program – co-sponsored by RTL Genomics Awarded to Xiaochang Zhang of the University of Chicago for his project “Uncovering mRNA Splicing Diversity in Cerebral Cortex Development.” Read blog post 2017 Structural Variant SMRT Grant Program – co-sponsored by GENEWIZ Awarded to Stephen Scherer of The Centre for Applied Genomics at The Hospital for Sick Children for his project “Using Low-Coverage PacBio SMRT Sequencing to Find Structural Variation Mutations in Autism Families with Multiple Affected Individuals.” Read blog post 2017 Cancer SMRT Grant Program Awarded to Andrew Ludlow of the University of Michigan for his proposal to investigate the splicing of transcripts regulated by the oncogene NOVA1. Read blog post |
 | 2018 Microbial Genomics SMRT Grant Program – co-sponsored by University of Maryland’s Genomics Resource Center Awarded to Mark Webber of Quadram Institute for his proposal to study preventing infection for premmies. Read blog post 2017 Microbial SMRT Grant Program Awarded to Alexander Shumaker of Rutgers University for his research on the coral microbiome. Read blog post |