On Sept. 9, 2021, the NIH announced that it was providing approximately $185 million over five years to the Impact of Genomic Variation on Function (IGVF) consortium, initiated and funded by NIHﾒs National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).

NHGRI planned to fund 25 awards across 30 U.S. research sites. IGVF consortium investigators will work to understand how genomic variation alters human genome function, and how such variation influences human health and disease.