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NHGRI marks its fourteenth annual National DNA Day by organizing a nationwide network of educational events for students, teachers and health professionals.
… annual National DNA Day by organizing a nationwide network of educational events for students, teachers and health professionals. … Celebrated on April 25th every … to educate people about important scientific advances in genomics and how those advances may impact their lives. "Our …
Training, Diversity and Health Equity Office (TiDHE)
The Diversity Centers for Genome Research Consortium aims to support the development of innovative genomic research projects through infrastructure building and the formation of interdisciplinary research teams at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), institutions with a documented record and/or historical and current mission of recruiting, educating, training and graduating students from any of the populations identified as underrepresented in biomedical research.
… genomic research projects through infrastructure building and the formation of interdisciplinary research teams at … Consortium are to carry out innovative, state-of-the-art genomics research studies; enhance institutional genomics … Principal Investigator: LaMonica Stewart, Ph.D. Meharry Medical College Pacific Center for Genome Research Principal …
News Release
Investigators with The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network have identified new potential therapeutic targets for a major form of bladder cancer.
… NHGRI Communications and Public Liaison Branch … Investigators with The Cancer … subsets of bladder cancer patients. "We've organized our medical care around the affected organ system," Dr. Lerner … Louis Staudt, M.D., Ph.D., director, NCI Center for Cancer Genomics. TCGA data are freely available prepublication to …
News Release
Fearful patients who received information about the role of genomics in obesity were less likely to take steps to improve health habits
… that requires a tetanus shot. But when those bad days, and the emotions they provoke, precede a visit to the doctor, … patients who received information about the role of genomics in being overweight viewed the information as … … Obesity and genomic information, obesity and genetics, medical information and fearfulness, emotions and medical …
Leadership Initiatives
NHGRI's strategic planning process will establish a 2020 vision for genomics aimed at accelerating scientific and medical breakthroughs.
… a strategic planning effort to establish a 2020 vision for genomics aimed at accelerating scientific and medical breakthroughs. During the development of the …
About NHGRI
Established in 1989, NHGRI collaborates with the scientific and medical communities to catalyze genomic breakthroughs.
… Established in 1989, NHGRI collaborates with the scientific and medical communities to catalyze genomic breakthroughs and … breakthroughs. … Human Genome Project, genetics research, genomics research, NIH, NIH funding, biomedical research …
Strategic Plan
NHGRI launched a new round of strategic planning to establish a 2020 vision for genomics aimed at accelerating scientific and medical breakthroughs.
… strategic planning that will establish a 2020 vision for genomics aimed at accelerating scientific and medical breakthroughs. …   Since the launch of the Human …
The Genomics Landscape
In the November 2019 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights the International Common Disease Alliance's scientific plenary and launch meeting in September, which included an international panel on opportunities emerging outside the U.S., North America, and Europe; discussions about polygenic risk scores; and an overview about data platforms, data sharing, and ethics.
… Green, M.D., Ph.D. … To productively use a long, blank (and boring) hallway near my office in Building 31 on the NIH … sequence – specifically, about 3 million G’s, A’s, T’s, and C’s stretching nearly 100 linear feet. As mentioned in a … and accomplishments from the institute and the field of genomics. …  The International Common Disease Alliance …
The Genomics Landscape
In the June 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green details NHGRI's new Diversity in Genomics Workforce Initiative.
… Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D. … This issue of The Genomics Landscape  comes at an especially difficult time, … across the United States on top of the illness, death, and physical isolation that we have been experiencing … research.   …  Bill Gahl, Senior Investigator in NHGRI’s Medical Genetics Branch and Founding Director of the NIH …
Genomics and Medicine
The NHGRI Genomic Medicine Working Group has compiled a list of interesting advances.
… Group  (GMWG) is compiling a list of interesting advances and helpful educational resources in genomic medicine. To … for specific publications by title, author, category and/or by date range.  For an explanation about the selection … Milestones In Medicine, Clinical Implementation Of Genomics, Pharmacogenomics, Oncology Sequencing, …