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The Genomics Landscape
In the January 2024 issue of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green announces the appointment of Dr. Adam Phillippy as the founding director of the Center for Genomics and Data Science Research (CGDSR).
… genomics advances! Last year ended with exciting news from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which approved two gene therapies for the treatment of sickle cell disease. About 100,000 Americans … improve, new methods are required to make large-scale genomic edits. Such technologies would be particularly useful …
Educational Resources
Teaching tools to present the foundations of genomics to students and help them understand the impact of genomics in their lives.
… Take advantage of our ready-made teaching tools to present the foundations to your students and help them understand the impact of genomics in their lives. … Genomics Teaching Tools … Teaching tools to present the foundations of genomics to your students and help them …
The Genomics Landscape
In May 4, 2023 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., details a report released by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, that provided a series of recommendations for using population descriptors in future genetics and genomics studies.
… month for NHGRI, as we celebrated three anniversaries — the 70th anniversary of the discovery of DNA's double-helical structure, the 20th … using population descriptors as a proxy to describe human genomic variation. These descriptors have reflected …
The Genomics Landscape
In the September 2018 edition of The Genomics landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights five new educational videos that use poetry and dance.
… Halls (one virtual, one in Seattle, Washington, and one in the California Bay Area) were open-ended discussions about the future of genomics. We continue to build on what we learn … to decipher one's ancestral origins. ' Zarko's Story: Genomic Medicine in Action ' reveals the experience of a …
Fact Sheets
Estimated cost of sequencing the human genome over time since the Human Genome Project.
… Advances in the field of genomics over the past quarter-century have led to substantial reductions … sequence to a reference human genome, sequence assembly, genomic variant calling, or annotation. Almost certainly, …
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.
… Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D. … Due to the current circumstance with the COVID-19 pandemic, the upcoming May meeting of the … through May 15, 2020. In both the short- and long-term, genomic studies have the potential to yield valuable …
About NHGRI
The Genomics and Society Working Group advises on planning and priorities for genomics and society activities at NHGRI.
… The Genomics and Society Working Group provides advice on … priority setting for genomics and society activities at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). … The … of Genomics and Society in light of changes in genomics, genomic medicine, and the policy landscape, aiming to …
Fact Sheets
Genomics is the study of all of a person's genes (the genome), including interactions of those genes with each other and with the person's environment.
… Genomics is the study of all of a person's genes (the genome), including interactions of those genes with each … human DNA generated by the Human Genome Project and other genomic research, scientists and clinicians have more …
About NHGRI
The NHGRI Community Engagement in Genomics Working Group aims to engage communities to ensure that genomics and genomic medicine benefit all.
… The NHGRI Community Engagement in Genomics Working Group aims to engage communities to ensure that genomics and genomic medicine benefit all. … The NHGRI Community Engagement in Genomics Working Group …
The Genomics Landscape
In the May 2021 issue of the Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D. notes that a number of individuals with strong ties to NHGRI have been nominated and/or appointed to serve on the White House Science Team.
… opportunities to engage in areas related to genomics and the biomedical research enterprise. Recently, NIH and the Scientific Workforce Diversity (SWD) office announced … …  The video, presentations, and meeting report of the “Genomic Medicine XIII: Developing a Clinical Genomic …