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An interactive timeline listing key moments from the history of the project.
News Release
NHGRI is awarding Genomic Innovator Awards to nine institutions to support the research of 12 early career scientists in the field of genomics. The awards will total up to $27 million over five years.
… Ph.D. University of Washington, Seattle Use quantitative models and machine learning to improve links between … … Genomic Innovator Awards, human biology, quantitative models, machine learning, personalized medicine, CRISPR, …
Partner with NHGRI
NHGRI's technologies, inventions and discoveries are available for licensing.
… including candidate gene therapy-based therapeutics, mouse models of genetic disorders and a diverse range of …  (NHGRI) Office of Technology Transfer Abstract  … Mouse Models Mouse Model of Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome … Erdos (NHGRI) and Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. (NHGRI) Murine Model of Niemann-Pick Disease Type C DHHS Reference …
Staff
Dr. Charles Venditti is a chief and senior investigator of NHGRI's Metabolic Medicine Branch.
… have generated a suite of clinically-relevant mouse models to dissect disease mechanisms in MMA. Using a … by tubulointerstitial disease. Future efforts to apply murine and zebrafish modeling to other disorders in the … ] Chandler RJ, Venditti CP. Long-term rescue of a lethal murine model of methylmalonic acidemia using adeno-associated …
Jobs at NHGRI
A postdoctoral training position is currently available in the Computational and Statistical Genomics Branch (CSGB) of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).
… research program is focused on how non-traditional animal models can be used to convey critical insights into human … Program’s renewed emphasis on developing new animal models for the study of basic biology. … The NIH is dedicated … abilities of these colonial hydrozoans make them excellent models for the study of key questions related to …
News Release
NHGRI researchers, collaborators at the University of California (UC) San Diego, UC Davis and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine lay out a new framework for comparing dog-to-human aging, one that uses epigenetics as a biological marker to better understand the aging process.
… These patterns have allowed the creation of mathematical models that can accurately gauge the age of an …
Research at NHGRI
The Technology Transfer Office is responsible for transferring NHGRI technologies to the private sector and exchanging research materials with outside groups.
… tissue microarrays for rapid molecular profiling, mouse models of inherited disorders and a diverse range of genes. … … of novel technologies, biological materials and animal models invented by NHGRI investigators. The TTO is involved …
Policy Issues
Federally-funded research with human participants must comply with regulations that protect the rights and welfare of the participants.
Staff
Diana Bianchi is an adjunct investigator in the Medical Genetics Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute.
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… and brain and placenta tissue from four different mouse models of Down syndrome, the Ts65Dn, the Ts1Cje, Dp(16)1Yey … effects of maternal diet during pregnancy on the murine fetal brain transcriptome and offspring behavior. … Siegel AE, Tantravahi U, Bianchi DW. An Integrated Human/Murine Transcriptome and Pathway Approach To Identify …
News Release
A genetic mutation that triggers bladder cancer in dogs is identical to a mutation that is implicated in multiple human cancers.
… Their findings suggest that dogs could serve as in vivo models for developing therapies for many human cancers, …