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Dr. Paul Liu is a senior investigator in NHGRI's Translational and Functional Genomics Branch.
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… Dr. Liu received his medical degree and residency training in internal medicine in Beijing, … a senior staff fellow, then as a tenure track investigator and since 2001 as a tenured senior investigator. Dr. Liu has been the head of the Oncogenesis and Development Section in NHGRI since 1995. In May 2011, Dr. …
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Dr. Manfred Boehm is a an adjunct investigator for the Office of the Clinical Director at NHGRI.
… M.D. in 1993 from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and did his residency in internal medicine at the … Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, from 1996 to 1997, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, from 1997 to 1999. He joined the NHLBI as a research fellow in 1999 and has been an investigator since 2003. Dr. Boehm received a …
Staff
Dr. Peter McGuire is an investigator in NHGRI's Center for Precision Health Research.
… from Villanova University, a master's. in microbiology and immunology from New York Medical College, and an M.B.B.Ch. (with honors, and equivalent with an M.D.) … The Metabolism, Infection and Immunity Section (MINIS) studies the interplay between metabolism and the immune system through a translational research …
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Abdel Elkahloun is an associate investigator in NHGRI's Office of Scientific Core Facilities.
… Elkahloun obtained his B.Sc. from the University of Caen, and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Rennes, France. His Ph.D. … thesis was on the positional cloning, physical mapping and genetics of hemochromatosis. He completed his first … sets to use as framework for diagnostics, drugs treatment and/or assays to further define the disease in question. Most …
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Dr. Pamela Schwartzberg is a adjunct investigator in NHGRI's Genetic Disease Research Branch.
… Schwartzberg received her B.A. from Princeton University and her M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Columbia College of … University, on studies of retroviral replication and on early studies using homologous recombination to introduce … into the germline of mice — work that helped open a new era in mouse genetics. After an internship at Boston …
Staff
Lisa Garrett is an associate investigator and director of the NHGRI Transgenic Mouse Core.
… Lisa Garrett is a staff scientist and director of the NHGRI Transgenic Mouse Core at the NIH. … is technology development and attention to individual investigators' projects. To this end, she has concentrated on … 2017. [ PubMed ] ). This report presents the results of a new endonuclease, Cpf1, that may be even more efficient than …
Staff
Dr. Francis Collins was a senior investigator in Center for Precision Health Research.
… As the longest serving director of NIH — spanning 12 years and three presidencies — he oversaw the work of the largest … noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the international Human Genome Project, … disease, a familial endocrine cancer syndrome, and most recently, genes for type 2 diabetes, and the gene …
Research Funding
NHGRI solicits grant applications related to its scientific priorities and welcomes investigator-initiated applications.
… grant applications related to its scientific priorities and welcomes investigator-initiated applications. … applications that relate to its scientific priorities and research interests. For some programs, the NHGRI … with program staff during the concept development stage of the application. Investigator-initiated research …
News Release
Researchers and families are investigating the heritability of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD.
… in his backpack to keep himself on task, both at home and elsewhere. His school provides him with special assistance, including extra time for tests and repeated, detailed instruction from his teachers. … and adults." Potential future treatments could include new medications, new behavioral interventions, or new …
Virtual Exhibit
The Human Genome Project changed traditional understandings of how and why scientific research is conducted. It was, however, not without its detractors. Early in 1990, there was an effort to stop funding for the nascent Human Genome Project, in the form of a letter writing campaign.
… page of Martin Rechsteiner’s letter, which circulated and spurred the anti-Human Genome Project letter campaign. … of the sequencing work will not be creative or innovative and will not allow students of postdoctoral fellows to … argued that the Human Genome Project would not draw new professionals in science and medicine towards the field …