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National Advisory Committee for Human Genome Research

Director's Report Related Documents: February 2006 Meeting

Announcements

• Intramural Investigators Accept Positions at UCSF; DIR Seeks New Branch Chiefs
  Intramural branch chiefs Bob Nussbaum and Jennifer Puck are leaving to take faculty positions at UCSF. DIR is has undertaken a search for two new branch chiefs, the closing date for this position is March 1, 2006.

Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science (CEGS) Meeting

• Roger Brent: Regulated cell-to-cell variation in a cell-fate decision system (September 2005)
• David M. Kingsley: Widespread Parallel Evolution in Sticklebacks by Repeated Fixation of Ectodysplasin Alleles (March 2005)
• Greg Gibson: The Synthesis and Evolutionof a Supermodel (March 2005)

Medical Sequencing

• NHGRI's Large-Scale Sequencing Research Network Sets Its Sights on Disease Targets

News Releases and Advisories

• Telomere Researcher Receives NIH Director's Pioneer Award
• Researchers to Gain Wider Access to Knockout Mice
• International Consortium Completes Map Of Human Genetic Variation
• U.S. Surgeon General Urges Americans To Know Their Family Health History
  
• 9/11 Panel Makes Recommendations for DNA-Based Identification After Mass Disasters
• Researchers Publish Dog Genome Sequence
• NIH Launches Comprehensive Effort to Explore Cancer Genomics
• NHGRI Names Co-Chiefs of Inherited Disease Research Branch
  
• Two NIH Initiatives Launch Intensive Efforts to Determine Genetic and Environmental Roots of Common Diseases
• Feds get corporate donations for research
• Researchers Assemble Second Non-Human Primate Genome

Program Announcements

• The NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) [grants1.nih.gov]
• New Investigators Program [grants1.nih.gov]

Publications and Summaries

• Science's Breakthrough of the Year: Evolution in Action
• Price of mice to plummet under NIH's new scheme
• NHGRI Policy Roundtable Summary: The Future of Genomic Medicine

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Requests for Applications (RFA)

• Genome Sequencing Centers (U54) [grants1.nih.gov]
• Near-Term Technology Development for Genome Sequencing (R01, R21, R21/R33) [grants.nih.gov]
• Revolutionary Genome Sequencing Technologies - The $1000 Genome (R01, R21, R21/R33) [grants.nih.gov]

Sequencing Status update

• Sequencing Table
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Last Reviewed: August 10, 2009