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NHGRI will host a Town Hall at Morehouse School of Medicine to gather ideas and feedback from trainees in the Atlanta area about current and future opportunities in genomics research and applications.
NHGRI will host a Town Hall at Morehouse School of Medicine to gather ideas and feedback from researchers, industry experts, healthcare professionals and other interested stakeholders in the Atlanta area about current and future opportunities in genomics research and applications.
NHGRI will host a Town Hall at Stanford University to gather ideas and feedback from researchers, industry experts, healthcare professionals, and other interested stakeholders in the San Francisco Bay area about current and future opportunities in genomics research and applications.
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NHGRI will host a Town Hall at the University of Washington to gather ideas and feedback from trainees about current and future opportunities in genomics research and applications.
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NHGRI will host a Town Hall at the University of Washington to gather ideas and feedback from researchers, industry experts, healthcare professionals and other interested stakeholders in the Seattle area about current and future opportunities in genomics research and applications.
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This discussion centered around several Grand Challenges, such as to "Meet the educational and professional development needs of K-12 educators and healthcare providers to increase the awareness and understanding of genomic information." This was an important opportunity for educators to influence the future landscape of genomics research and its intersection with society, education and community engagement.
This meeting brought together, for a day of intensive scientific exchange, NHGRI Advanced Sequencing Technology Program grantees and other scientists and engineers who may have insights that would help to achieve the goal of sequencing human genomes at high quality for $1,000 or less.
NHGRI hosted a "virtual" town hall about the recently launched strategic planning process to gather ideas and feedback from researchers, trainees, industry experts, healthcare professionals, and other interested stakeholders about current and future opportunities in genomics research and applications.
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Summary of Virtual Strategic Planning Town Hall
Following the 2017 ELSI Congress and entering a new phase of strategic planning for the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Research Program hosted a webinar to gather ideas from the research community on needs and resources to increase the reach, impact and transparency of ELSI research.
This webinar included a brief introduction by NHGRI staff followed by a moderated discussion open to all webinar participants.
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Following the 2017 ELSI Congress and entering a new phase of strategic planning for the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Research Program hosted a webinar to gather ideas from the research community on needs and resources to increase the reach, impact and transparency of ELSI research.
This webinar included a brief introduction by NHGRI staff followed by a moderated discussion open to all webinar participants.
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NHGRI Director Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., launched the NHGRI 2020 Strategic Planning process on February 12, 2018, during a presentation at the 82nd meeting of the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research in Rockville, Maryland.
"En Route to a 2020 Vision for Genomics: The Next Round of NHGRI Strategic Planning"
February 12, 2018 Press Release: Developing a 2020 vision for genomics: NHGRI launches new round of strategic planning
