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A new study offers insights into why some people's hair goes gray in response to a serious illness or chronic stress.
… or chronic stress. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and the University of Alabama (UAB) have discovered a connection between the … gene is a crucial regulator that drives many functions of pigment cells, known as melanocytes. The study showed that …
Event
On June 17-18, 2021, NHGRI hosts a workshop, Multi-Omics in Health and Disease: Current Applications, Challenges and Future Directions.
… Howard Chang, Stanford University Judy Cho, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai Workshop Rationale Moderator: Howard … Chang (Stanford University) 1:05 - 1:15 p.m. Overview of NHGRI’s Strategic Vision Eric Green, NHGRI 1:15 - 1:25 p.m. Purpose of Workshop and Agenda overview Joannella Morales, NHGRI 1:25 …
Careers and Training
NHGRI provides funding to support the development and implementation of modules aimed at providing healthcare professionals with genomic medicine training.
… funding to support the development and implementation of modules aimed at providing healthcare professionals with … genomic medicine training. Listed below are the details of the projects funded under NOT-HG-20-020 . … credit available Description:  We are developing a suite of short educational modules entitled ‘Rapid Personalized …
The Genomics Landscape
In the August 2023 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green introduces incoming NHGRI DEO Director, Jennifer Troyer.
… genome.gov , at the cutting edge, the NHGRI Office of Communications recently implemented some new features that take advantage of the latest advances in web design and technology. These … so that visitors can more efficiently find resources of interest. The enhanced genome.gov site has a more …
Research Funding
NHGRI is initiating a new program-the Impact of Genomic Variation on Function (IGVF) Consortium to develop a framework for systematically understanding the effects of genomic variation on genome function and how these effects shape phenotypes.
… Awards Jay Shendure Nadav Ahituv Martin Kircher University of Washington UC San Francisco Charite Universitatsmedizin … elements impacting transcriptional regulation in dynamic cellular systems HG011966 Lea Starita Douglas Fowler … through the lens of the cis-regulatory code HG012069 Network Awards Harinder Singh Jishnu Das University of …
About Genomics
The Human Genome Project was an inward voyage of discovery led by an international team of researchers looking to sequence and map all the genes of our species.
… The Human Genome Project (HGP) is one of the greatest scientific feats in history. The project was a voyage of biological discovery led by an international group of researchers looking to comprehensively study all of the … The Human Genome Project was an inward voyage of discovery led by an international team of researchers …
News Release
Researchers from the NHGRI-funded Impact of Genomic Variation on Function Consortium are exploring how genomic variation affects genome function.
… Researchers from the NHGRI-funded Impact of Genomic Variation on Function Consortium are exploring how … the past two decades, researchers have identified hundreds of millions of these differences, known as genomic variants , that exist … One of the many approaches that IGVF researchers are taking to …
Staff
Dr. Tyra Wolfsberg is the associate director of the Bioinformatics and Scientific Programming Core at the National Human Genome Research Institute.
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… Dr. Wolfsberg is the associate director of NHGRI's Bioinformatics and Scientific Programming Core. … She has collaborated with NHGRI investigators on a variety of projects, from genomic characterizations of DNAse I … Dr. Wolfsberg made her transition to computationally based research by performing her postdoctoral fellowship at …
Staff
Dr. Lanata is a staff clinician in NHGRI's Genomics of Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease Section.
… (2012); fellowship in Rheumatology at the University of California, San Francisco (2016). She also served as the … From 2016-2021, she worked as an Assistant Professor of Medicine, in the Division of Rheumatology at the University of California, San … with a primary research focus on exploring the interplay of genetic ancestry, genomics, and environmental influences …
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