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Research Funding
Fosters basic and applied research on the ethical, legal and social implications of genetic and genomic research. ​
… The Centers of Excellence in ELSI Research bring investigators from multiple disciplines … interpretation, understanding and use of genetic and genomic information and associated technologies.  Genomics … governments, systems or other organized stakeholders.  Genomic Research Design and Implementation These projects may …
The Informed Consent Resource
Explore the basic elements of informed consent that are required by the Common Rule and that are relevant to genomics.
… Regulations require "a statement that the study involves research, an explanation of the purposes of the research..." … involves research, why they have been approached about participation, and who is sponsoring the project. This … topics such as a brief description of the underlying genomic science, the study design, the diseases(s) or …
News Release
NIH expands its Encyclopedia of DNA Elements Project, which is creating a fundamental genomics resource scientists to study human health and disease.
… genome sequences and to understand the consequence of genomic variation," said Elise Feingold, Ph.D., a program … genome, and to analyze the enormous database of generated genomic information. The data and tools generated by ENCODE … synthesizes the data into an encyclopedia for use by the research community. Pending the availability of funds, NHGRI …
Diversity Center
The Pacific Center for Genome Research (PCGR) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) aims to grow and support Genomic Research workforce at UHM, a Minority Serving Institution (MSI), which has a mission to serve historically underrepresented population in biomedical research, namely, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders.
… The Pacific Center for Genome Research (PCGR) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) aims to grow and support Genomic Research workforce at UHM, a Minority Serving … bringing in new researchers and novel ideas and increasing participation of underrepresented populations and underserved …
Research at NHGRI
NHGRI center focused on computationally intensive approaches to analyze large-scale genomic data and identifying genetic contributions to human disease.
… The Center for Genomics and Data Science Research focuses on the development and application of … intensive approaches to analyze large-scale genetic and genomic data, with a particular focus on identifying genetic … to untangle the complexities of the genome and uncover genomic associations with health and disease. Members of the …
Research Funding
NHGRI's programs and projects support research in one of six domains to advance the field of genomics and improve human health.
… NHGRI's programs and projects support research in one of six domains to advance the field of … Molecular Libraries Program (MLP) Newborn Sequencing in Genomic Medicine and Public Health (NSIGHT) The Cancer Genome … and Projects … NHGRI's programs and projects support research in one of six domains to advance the field of …
Fact Sheet
Several regulations and policies stipulate the information that must be given to research participants prior to their enrolling in a study.
… The Big Picture:  Informed consent is crucial in research as it ensures individuals have an informed choice … samples for certain purposes. In accordance with the NIH Genomic Data Sharing (GDS) policy , researchers who intend to … collected or created after January 25, 2015, to derive genomic data may only do so when the original informed …
Research Training
The Clinical Center Genomics Opportunity promotes precision medicine and development of infrastructure to support clinical genomics at the NIH Clinical Center.
… capabilities within their Institutes to effectively use genomic data in clinical research and clinical care. The NIH Office of Intramural … with a vision that this will evolve toward comprehensive genomic evaluations in the future. To initiate this program, …
News Release
20 papers published online in 2014 highlight research on DNA biorepositories and electronic medical records to better understand the genomics of disease.
… of nearly 20 papers published online in 2014 highlights research on the use of DNA biorepositories and electronic … patient's data and disease characteristics with his or her genomic information collected from stored tissue specimens in … ancestries across the network can be harnessed in large genomic discovery studies. Several studies aimed to show the …
Research at NHGRI
A list of scientific and clinical research investigators at NHGRI.
… Cores … Adjunct Investigators … Scientist Emeriti … Research Investigators … A list of scientific and clinical research investigators at the National Human Genome Research Institute. … A list of scientific and clinical …