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NIH awarded grants to six medical centers to select from the most difficult-to-solve medical cases and develop effective approaches to diagnose them.
… site will contribute local medical expertise to the NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN). The network includes and is modeled after an NIH pilot program that has enrolled people with intractable … foreign countries. The network builds on a program at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., that for the past six …
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Dr. James Thomas is the acting director for the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC).
… School of Medicine before returning to NHGRI and the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center in 2011. He is currently the deputy director of the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center. As deputy director of NISC, … Ph.D. … Dr. James Thomas is the acting director for the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC). … James Thomas, NIH …
Professional Development Programs
The JHU/NIH Genetic Counseling Training Program addresses the growing need for genetic counseling services.
… Institute (NCI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at … Health have collaborated to develop and support the JHU/NIH Genetic Counseling Training Program (GCTP), a competitive … technologies and services. …  Mission Statement The JHU/NIH Genetic Counseling Training Program shapes genetic …
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Researchers have used a new combination of microfluidics and genomics to fish out a specific gut bacterium from the sea of microbes in the human microbiome.
… implicated in health and disease, according to a study published online the week of June 23, 2014, in the … Microbiome Project (HMP). The HMP is supported by the NIH Common Fund and coordinated by the National Human Genome … Steven Benowitz, NHGRI, 301-451-8325, or steven.benowitz@nih.gov NHGRI is one of the 27 institutes and centers at the …
The Genomics Landscape
In the May 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green details how NIH is ramping up research on COVID-19; NHGRI's expansion of its Genome Technology Program; and the the DiY Genome: Unlocking Life's Code exhibition toolkit.
… genomics. …  In response to the current global pandemic, NIH is aggressively tackling the biomedical research … institutions around the country. For example, a number of NIH Institutes and Centers have issued funding opportunity … and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), have initiated a study to quantify undetected cases of coronavirus infection . …
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NIH researchers identified gene variants that cause a rare syndrome of sporadic fevers, skin rashes and recurring strokes, beginning early in childhood.
… with a similar type of blood vessel inflammation. … The NIH group first encountered a patient with the syndrome … was no history of a similar illness in the family, the NIH group did not at first suspect a genetic cause, and … new insights into blood vessel disease. In their study, which appears in the Feb. 19, 2014, advance online …
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NIH researchers identified a novel role for a gene known as heat shock protein 60, finding it is critical in tissue regeneration and wound healing.
… is critical in tissue regeneration and wound healing. The study found that topical treatment of an Hsp60-containing gel … 2016. NHGRI is one of the 27 institutes and centers at the NIH, an agency of the Department of Health and Human … with vision loss. For more information, visit www.nei.nih.gov . About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, …
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NIH awards more than $64 million to for a database of human cellular responses called the Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures or LINCS.
… Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), both part of NIH, administer the program on behalf of the NIH Common Fund. The LINCS program aims to catalog and … by which cancer evades many treatments. The OHSU team will study how both malignant and non-malignant cells are …
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A team from the NIH has surmounted a major obstacle to testing potential drug therapies for a rare, genetic condition called Gaucher disease.
… Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), both parts of NIH, reported in the June 11, 2014, issue of Science … dispose of cell debris and pathogens. According to the study, researchers found two ways to generate macrophages in … … Testing Potential Drug Therapies … Related Content … NIH researchers use a new cell model of a rare disease to …
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Genomic analyses turned up genes that belong to inflammatory pathways.
… of the researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center. … Transformative Research Rohith is … examples why the transformative research taking place at NIH is critical. The same cutting-edge clinical medicine that … 2018. "Dance is my favorite thing to do. After coming to NIH, I can run, dance and do all my favorite activities. My …