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Research Training
NHGRI funds training and career development programs at academic, medical and other institutions throughout the U.S.
… Title Program Director(s) Program Support ✔  Harvard Medical School Training Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics Peter Park Catherine Haskell Lilen Uchima ✔  Princeton University Quantitative and Computational Biology Graduate Program John Storey Josh …
Leadership Initiatives
NHGRI's strategic planning process will establish a 2020 vision for genomics aimed at accelerating scientific and medical breakthroughs.
… 2020 vision for genomics aimed at accelerating scientific and medical breakthroughs. During the development of the … of genomics that will expand the field into new frontiers and enable novel applications to human health and disease. To … Social Media Use the #genomics2020 hashtag on Twitter  and Facebook  to follow and contribute to our strategic …
Graduate Medical Education
An opportunity for a 4-to-8-week elective in the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD.
… Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD. It is open to residents and clinical fellows enrolled in ACGME-accredited training … rotations also have exposure to the design, conduct, and management of investigational protocols, including … However, all residents are required to have their salary and benefits continued, and their malpractice/liability …
Research at NHGRI
NHGRI researchers are creating foundational tools and methods to expand genomics research, ultimately leading to medical breakthroughs.
… Genetic diseases affect millions of Americans every day, and research is key to improving our ability to diagnose and treat these diseases. At the National Human Genome … methods to expand genomics research, ultimately leading to medical breakthroughs. … NHGRI researchers are creating foundational tools and methods to expand genomics research, ultimately leading …
Staff
Dr. Amanda Ombrello is a clinical researcher in the Inflammatory Disease Section of NHGRI's Medical Genetics Branch.
… researcher in the Inflammatory Disease Section of the Medical Genetics Branch at the National Human Genome Research … in Missouri in 2003; completed internal medicine and pediatrics residency and a sub specialization in both adult and pediatric … Dr. Ombrello has played a significant role in the discovery and characterization of six new autoinflammatory diseases as …
Research at NHGRI
The Immersive Simulation Program (ISP) provides expertise, tools, and support for the integration of emerging technology-based methods into health and medical research.
… Evaluation of food choice and craving in experimental medicine studies PI: Lorenzo … Leggio, M.D., Ph.D. Clinical Psychoneuroendocrinology and Neuropsychopharmacology Section, NIDA/NIAAA … of genetic conditions PI: Benjamin Solomon, M.D. Medical Genomics Section, NHGRI …
Profile
NHGRI researchers recently published a study using virtual reality simulations to investigate how clinicians might use a type of genomic risk information called polygenic risk scores in medical care.
… Study shows genomic information can unknowingly influence medical decisions depending on race. … new polygenic risk scores will be used or received in medical clinics.  For this study, we wanted to predict how … risk reports will be applied in the healthcare system and understand whether introducing this information will …
News Release
NHGRI researchers collaborated with physicians and medical geneticists worldwide to create the Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations.
… Institutes of Health, have collaborated with physicians and medical geneticists around the world to create the Atlas of … diseases by comparing physical traits (called phenotypes) and written descriptions of their symptoms with photos and … in Genetics in Medicine . "This atlas is long overdue and much needed," said Daniel Kastner, M.D., Ph.D., NHGRI …
News Release
Diverse populations are still underrepresented in public genomic databases, according to a new study by researchers from the NIH and Harvard Medical School.
… by researchers from the National Institutes of Health and Partners Healthcare/Harvard Medical School.* … significantly fewer studies of African, Latin American and Asian ancestral populations compared to European … the study's first author and a genetics fellow at Harvard Medical School. The researchers noted that policies and …
Fact Sheet
Pharmacogenomics is a growing area of genomic medicine that uses a patient's genomic information to help healthcare providers select the medications and dosages that are predicted to work best in each patient.
… combines two scientific areas, pharmacology and genomics , to study how a person’s DNA affects their … helpful for their patient, what dosage is most appropriate and if a patient is at risk for an adverse reaction.  Pharmacogenomics is part of the growing medical areas of genomic medicine and precision medicine …