Huidong Shi (faculty at MU Medical School) and Dong Xu (CS faculty) received a Synergistic Idea Award of $746,031 from U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, Department of Defense to conduct research on “High-Throughput Bisulfite Sequencing Method for Exploring the Breast Cancer Epigenome” in 09/01/2007-08/31/2009.