Human Virome Program — Open Funding (Seed)
Offers exploration of the healthy human virome and virus host interactions across translational studies.
The NIH Common Fund's Human Virome Program (HVP) funds research to describe, characterize, and understand the healthy human virome — the collection of viruses that reside in the human body without producing evidence of disease. Conceived as an analog to the Human Microbiome Project but focused on viruses, the program was approved by the NIH Council of Councils in September 2022 and is now in activ…
Funds cataloging of the healthy human virome, development of tools to identify and characterize viruses in the body, and study of virus-host interactions across age groups.
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