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Event
NHGRI, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and National Cancer Institute (NCI) will host a pre-application interactive webinar for the Multi-Omics for Health and Disease program funding opportunity announcements (FOAs): RFA-HG-22-008,
RFA-HG-22-009 and RFA-HG-22-010.
Staff
Dr. Ajay Pillai is a program director in the Division of Genome Sciences at the National Human Genome Research Institute.
… AI, and other computational approaches. He co-leads two Common Fund programs: HuBMAP (single-cell mapping of “normal” … Ph.D. … Ajay Pillai, Molecular Libraries Program, NIH Common Fund, mental health, bioinformatics … Ajay Pillai, Molecular Libraries Program, NIH Common Fund, mental health, bioinformatics … Dr. Ajay Pillai …
Clinical Research
An Observational Prospective Natural History Study of Metabolism, Infection and Immunity During the COVID19 Pandemic (At-home Participation).
Genomics Teaching Tool
An activity that demonstrates how DNA can be isolated from a strawberry using common household items.
… how DNA can be isolated from a strawberry using common household items. … An activity that demonstrates how DNA can be isolated from a strawberry using common household items. … Genomics Teaching Tool …
Research Funding
Applications demonstrating excellent grantsmanship, grant mechanisms and research methodologies common to ethical, legal and social implications research.
… a variety of grant mechanisms and research methodologies common to ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) … grantsmanship, grant mechanisms and research methodologies common to ethical, legal and social implications research. … grantsmanship, grant mechanisms and research methodologies common to ethical, legal and social implications research. … …
News Release
As researchers uncover millions of DNA differences in genes, doctors struggle to know which of these inherited differences, called variants, really matter.
… to apply these standards in the context of particular diseases. ClinGen projects center on developing processes and … ClinGen and ClinVar seek to combine them into one common central database. In the last two years, nearly 300 …
Clinical Research
This study explores how microbes, such as bacteria and fungi, contribute to a very common skin condition called Atopic Dermatitis, known as eczema.
… microbes, such as bacteria and fungi, contribute to a very common skin condition called Atopic Dermatitis (AD), also … study will benefit patients with skin and other immune diseases in the future. Does skin sampling through skin swabs … microbes, such as bacteria and fungi, contribute to a very common skin condition called Atopic Dermatitis, known as …
News Release
Over the last 20 years, three families have been unknowingly linked to one another by an unknown illness. Researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and other organizations have now identified the cause of the illness, a new disease called CRIA syndrome. The results of their work were published on Dec. 11 in the journal Nature.
… M.D., Ph.D., a pioneer in the field of autoinflammatory diseases, and his team discovered CRIA, which has symptoms … unexplained fever, swollen glands and other symptoms or diseases, and then at over a quarter million people from … are routinely used to treat autoinflammatory and chronic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, had little effect on …
Staff
William J. Pavan, Ph.D. is the chief of NHGRI's Genetic Disease Research Branch.
… His primary areas of interest include the development and diseases of melanocytes, the cells responsible for … research interest are the genetics of pigmentation and its diseases and the lysosomal storage disease Niemann-Pick … with an emphasis on understanding and treating human diseases, Dr. Pavan's work is focused on transformative …
For Patients and Families
List of resources to help you find accurate and reliable information on genetic and rare diseases.
… accurate and reliable information on genetic and rare diseases among the millions of online sources is a difficult … Human Genome Research Institute or the Office of Rare Diseases at the National Institutes of Health. We cannot … of studies that are conducted in humans. Some of the more common studies include clinical trials, case-control studies, …