NACHGR - Director's Report Related Documents: February 2007 Meeting

National Advisory Committee for Human Genome Research

Director's Report Related Documents: February 2007 Meeting

News Releases and Advisories

• September 19, 2006: NIH Director Announces 2006 Pioneer Award Recipients [nih.gov]
• September 28, 2006: NHGRI Funds Assessment of Public Attitudes About Population-Based Studies on Genes and Environment
• October 4, 2006: NHGRI Aims to Make DNA Sequencing Faster, More Cost Effective
• October 9, 2006: Institute Of Medicine Elects 65 New Members, Five Foreign Associate [nationalacademies.org]
• October 11, 2006: Researchers Publish Results of Largest Genome-Wide Linkage Study of Prostate Cancer Among African American Men
• October 25, 2006: Scientists Publish Analysis of Honey Bee Genome
• November 15, 2006: New Family Health History Projects Focus on Alaska Native, Appalachian Communities
• November 20, 2006: NHGRI Funds Large-Scale Sequencing Centers
• January 17, 2007: President Bush Participates in a Roundtable on Advances in Cancer Prevention [georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov]
• January 25, 2007: NIH Director Selects Dr. Alan M. Krensky as NIH Deputy Director for the Office of Portfolio Analysis and Strategic Initiatives (OPASI) [nih.gov]
• February 7, 2007: Horse Genome Assembled

Publications and Summaries

• The Sea Urchin Genome: Where Will It Lead Us? - Science [sciencemag.org]
• A Mouse for All Reasons - Cell [cell.com]
• Merging and emerging cohorts - Nature
• Necessary but not sufficient - Nature
• Summary of the NHGRI Workshop on Privacy, Confidentiality, and Identifiability in Genomic Research

Medical Sequencing

• Medical Sequencing Program Policies and Procedures *
  * This is an archived document. For the updated policies and procedures, go to www.genome.gov/20019650/msp-policies/.

Requests for Applications (RFA)

• RFA-HG-07-030 [grants.nih.gov]: Creating the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) in the Human Genome (U01 and U54)
• RFA-HG-07-031 [grants.nih.gov]: A Data Coordination Center for the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Project (U41)
• RFA-ES-07-002 [grants.nih.gov]: Human Genes and the Environment Research Training Program (T32)

Sequencing Status Update

• Sequencing Table

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