Professor Ali Mortazavi (Developmental and Cell Biology) is the co-recipient of a National Institutes of Health grant given through its Encyclopedia of DNA Elements Project. An expert in human gene regulatory networks, Professor Mortazavi will use the grant to help establish a new genome mapping center to pinpoint where genes and the regulatory elements that control them lie within the human genome. Professor Mortazavi will partner with his colleagues, and co-recipients from the California Institute of Technology, to create the UCI-Caltech Precision Transcriptome Center.