€ 17 million for Netherlands X-omics Research Infrastructure
As part of the Netherlands Large Scale Research Infrastructure Roadmap, the Netherlands X-omics (pronounce as cross-omics) initiative has been awarded a € 17 mln (USD 20 million) Infrastructure grant over a 5 year period, which is matched by similar investments from all parties involved. In the X-omics initiative the leading researchers in Metabolomics (Thomas Hankemeier, Leiden University), Proteomics (Albert Heck, Utrecht University), Genomics (Edwin Cuppen UMC Utrecht) and bio-informatics (Alain van Gool, Radboud UMC) are working together.