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 Omic research programs on neurological/ neurodegenerative/ mental Health
Conditions (susceptibility and drug response)
 Validation of candidate genomic markers on susceptibility and drug response
for CVD and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM)

 Human host and viral markers of dengue severity (knowledge generation on
pathophysiological and molecular mechanisms of dengue severity)

 Nutrigenomics

Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

 Development of computational approaches and formulating bioinformatics
pipeline to study Filipino genomes
 Data mining for lung or breast cancer tissues

Novel Technologies for Therapeutics
 Development of molecular vehicles for targeted drug delivery

Biobanking, Data Mining and Population Studies for Human Health, Ethnicity and
Forensic Applications
 Developing forensic methods used in criminal investigations, kinship analysis
and victim identification
 Studies on Filipino DNA markers for forensic applications
 Characterization of Filipino genomic variations (22 regional groups and 24
ethno-linguistic groups- sample collection)
 Establishing a biobanking resource of Filipino samples and their associated
data (Genomic, Proteomic etc.)

Priorities for 2019-2022
Omics Technologies for Health and Wellness
 Validation of candidate genomic markers on susceptibility and drug response
for Neurodegenerative/ Mental Health Diseases
 Omic research programs on rare diseases in the Filipino population
(susceptibility and drug response)
 Omic research programs on human host and infectious disease markers of
susceptibility, severity and therapeutic response
 Nutrigenomics
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
 Developing the national capability for bioinformatics, chemoinformatics,
computational biology and big data analytics for the medical and health
sciences
 Validation and testing of computational approaches and formulating
bioinformatics pipelines to study Filipino genome
Novel Technologies for Therapeutics

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