Director's Report-Related Documents

February 2020

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No.	Relevant Documents
1	New Senior Advisor to the Director
2	Harold D. West, Ph.D. Distinguished Biomedical Science Award
3	'Genomics2020' Strategic Planning Process 'Genomics2020' Website 'Genomics2020' News and Events Calendar
4	*New Chief Executive Officer, NIH All of Us* Research Program** Selection of Dr. Joshua Denny as Chief Executive Officer of the All of Us Research Program All of Us Research Program All of Us News, Events, and Media Website
5	New Director, NIH Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative Dr. John Ngai named director of NIH BRAIN Initiative NIH BRAIN Initiative Website NIH BRAIN Initiative Five Year Plan
6	Nominated Director, National Science Foundation
7	Leadership Shuffles at the National Cancer Institute & Food and Drug Administration Statement on the return of Dr. Ned Sharpless as NCI Director New Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration
8	Martha Somerman Retires as Director, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
9	Draft NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing
10	Fiscal Year 2020 Appropriations
11	Mourning the Loss of Jo Messing
12	Mourning the Loss of David Hogness
13	2019 American Society of Human Genetics Awards
14	Schottenstein Prize & Oscar B. Hunter Career Award Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Prize in Cardiovascular Sciences Oscar B. Hunter Career Award in Therapeutics
15	Elected to National Academy of Medicine
16	Elected to AAAS
17	International Common Disease Alliance (ICDA) ICDA Website ICDA White Paper
18	Genomic Medicine Working Group Publishes “Year in Review: 2019”
19	Science's Breakthrough of the Year Runners Up
20	The Scientist’s Top Technical Advances of 2019
21	Nature's Science of the Decade
22	Genomes In the News Puma Atlantic Herring Devil Worm Water Lilly Red Pineapple Carolina Parakeet Sugarcane Foxtail Millet Penguin Indian Cobra Giant Squid
23	Genome Sequencing Program (GSP) GSP Website GSP Consortium Website Centers for Common Disease Genomics (CCDG) Website GSP Analysis Centers Website Abul-Husn - Exome sequencing reveals a high prevalence of BRCA1 and BRCA2 founder variants in a diverse population-based biobank Chen - A bootstrap method for goodness of fit and model selection with a single observed network Centers for Mendelian Genomics (CMG) Website
24	Mendelian Genomics Research Consortium Funding Opportunity Announcements RFA-HG-20-007 - Mendelian Genomics Research Centers (U01) RFA-HG-20-008 - Mendelian Genomics Data Coordinating Center (U24) Mendelian Genomics Research Consortium Pre-Application Webinar
25	Human Genome Reference Program (HGRC) HGRC Website Human Pangenome Reference Consortium
26	Technology Development Program Technology Development Program Website Novel Genome Technology Development Program Announcements Workman - Nanopore native RNA sequencing of human poly(A) transcriptome
27	ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) ENCODE Program Website ENCODE Portal ENCODE Participants ENCODE Data Utilization Workshop ENCODE Imputation Challenge Search Candidate cis-Regulatory Elements by ENCODE (SCREEN)
28	Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science (CEGS) CEGS Program Website PAR-19-204 - Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science (RM1) NOT-HG-20-013 - Emphasizing an Opportunity for New Institutional Applicants in Response to PAR-19-204 Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science (RM1)
29	Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network eMERGE Network Program Website eMERGE Consortium - Harmonizing Clinical Sequencing and Interpretation for the eMERGE III Network eMERGE Resources
30	Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen) ClinGen Consortium Website ClinGen Copy Number Variants (CNVs) Web Series Ritter - A case for expert curation: an overview of cancer curation in the Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen) Luo - ClinGen myeloid malignancy variant curation expert panel recommendations for germline RUNX1 variants
31	Clinical Sequencing Evidence-Generating Research (CSER) Program CSER Program Website CSER Consortium Website
32	Analysis, Visualization, and Informatics Lab-space (AnVIL)
33	NIH Biomedical Knowledgebase and Biomedical Data Repository FOAs PAR-20-089 - Biomedical Data Repository (U24) PAR-20-097 - Biomedical Knowledgebase (U24) NOT-HG-20-017 - Notice of Special Interest: Genomic Data Repositories (PAR-20-089) and Knowledgebases (PAR-20-097) PAR-20-100 - Genomic Community Resources (U24)
34	6th iDASH Genomic Privacy Challenge
35	Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) Research Program ELSI Research Program Website Center for ELSI Resources and Analysis (CERA) Request for Applications ELSI Congress Website
36	Small Business Program
37	Extramural Training and Career Development Training Program Website PAR-19-380 - Initiative to Maximize Research Education in Genomics: Diversity Action Plan (R25)
38	NHGRI Investigator-Initiated Research
39	Extramural Investigator-Initiated Highlights Bogard - A deep neural network for predicting and engineering alternative polyadenylation Fiszbein - Exon-mediated activation of transcription starts Applebaum - Is there a duty to reinterpret genetic data? The ethical dimensions Tischler - Cases in precision medicine: the role of tumor and germline genetic testing in breast cancer management
40	Library of Integrated Network-Based Cellular Signatures (LINCS) LINCS Program Website LINCS Consortium Website Common Fund Data Ecosystem Website
41	Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) H3Africa Program Website Sequencing African Genomes Yields New Data Resource with Broad Applicability
42	Harnessing Data Science for Health Discovery and Innovation in Africa Program (DSI-Africa)
43	Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) NIH UDN Program Website NHGRI UDN Program Website UDN Gateway Reuter - Yield of whole exome sequencing in undiagnosed patients facing insurance coverage barriers to genetic testing
44	Human Biomolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP) HuBMAP Program Website HuBMAP Common Fund Website NIH-Human Cell Atlas (HCA) 2020 Meeting RFA-RM-20-001 – Transformative Technology Development (UG3/UH3) RFA-RM-20-002 – Tissue Mapping Centers (U54)
45	Somatic Cell Genome Editing (SCGE) SCGE Program Website SCGE Funding Opportunities
46	4D Nucleome Program (4DN) 4DN Program Website 4DN Common Fund Funding Page
47	Data and Technology Advancement National Service Scholar (DATA Scholars)
48	Update to NHGRI’s Implementation of the NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy NIH Guide Notice Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) NHGRI News Release
49	New NHGRI Polygenic Risk Score Resource
50	NHGRI Director’s New Twitter Account @NHGRI_Director
51	*The Gene: An Intimate History* WETA Documentary WETA-NHGRI Partnership The Gene: An Intimate History Preview National Education and Telecommunications Association (NETA) Facebook Live Recording
52	*Genome: Unlocking Life's Code* Exhibition Unlocking Life‘s Code Website Jacksonville Museum of Science and Industry New Website Feature “Genomics: Insights”
53	New NHGRI Clinical Director
54	New NHGRI Intramural Precision Health Research Program
55	Elected to National Academy of Medicine
56	NHGRI Intramural Research Highlights Kastner - Mutations that prevent caspase cleavage of RIPK1 cause autoinflammatory disease Sidransky - Clinical evaluation of sibling pairs with Gaucher disease discordant for Parkinsonism Pavan - NPC1 deficiency in mice is associated with fetal growth restriction, neonatal lethality and abnormal lung pathology
57	The Genomics Landscape: A Monthly Newsletter from the NHGRI Director Listserv Sign-Up Issue Archive

February 2020

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No.	Relevant Documents
1	New Senior Advisor to the Director
2	Harold D. West, Ph.D. Distinguished Biomedical Science Award
3	'Genomics2020' Strategic Planning Process 'Genomics2020' Website 'Genomics2020' News and Events Calendar
4	*New Chief Executive Officer, NIH All of Us* Research Program** Selection of Dr. Joshua Denny as Chief Executive Officer of the All of Us Research Program All of Us Research Program All of Us News, Events, and Media Website
5	New Director, NIH Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative Dr. John Ngai named director of NIH BRAIN Initiative NIH BRAIN Initiative Website NIH BRAIN Initiative Five Year Plan
6	Nominated Director, National Science Foundation
7	Leadership Shuffles at the National Cancer Institute & Food and Drug Administration Statement on the return of Dr. Ned Sharpless as NCI Director New Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration
8	Martha Somerman Retires as Director, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
9	Draft NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing
10	Fiscal Year 2020 Appropriations
11	Mourning the Loss of Jo Messing
12	Mourning the Loss of David Hogness
13	2019 American Society of Human Genetics Awards
14	Schottenstein Prize & Oscar B. Hunter Career Award Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Prize in Cardiovascular Sciences Oscar B. Hunter Career Award in Therapeutics
15	Elected to National Academy of Medicine
16	Elected to AAAS
17	International Common Disease Alliance (ICDA) ICDA Website ICDA White Paper
18	Genomic Medicine Working Group Publishes “Year in Review: 2019”
19	Science's Breakthrough of the Year Runners Up
20	The Scientist’s Top Technical Advances of 2019
21	Nature's Science of the Decade
22	Genomes In the News Puma Atlantic Herring Devil Worm Water Lilly Red Pineapple Carolina Parakeet Sugarcane Foxtail Millet Penguin Indian Cobra Giant Squid
23	Genome Sequencing Program (GSP) GSP Website GSP Consortium Website Centers for Common Disease Genomics (CCDG) Website GSP Analysis Centers Website Abul-Husn - Exome sequencing reveals a high prevalence of BRCA1 and BRCA2 founder variants in a diverse population-based biobank Chen - A bootstrap method for goodness of fit and model selection with a single observed network Centers for Mendelian Genomics (CMG) Website
24	Mendelian Genomics Research Consortium Funding Opportunity Announcements RFA-HG-20-007 - Mendelian Genomics Research Centers (U01) RFA-HG-20-008 - Mendelian Genomics Data Coordinating Center (U24) Mendelian Genomics Research Consortium Pre-Application Webinar
25	Human Genome Reference Program (HGRC) HGRC Website Human Pangenome Reference Consortium
26	Technology Development Program Technology Development Program Website Novel Genome Technology Development Program Announcements Workman - Nanopore native RNA sequencing of human poly(A) transcriptome
27	ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) ENCODE Program Website ENCODE Portal ENCODE Participants ENCODE Data Utilization Workshop ENCODE Imputation Challenge Search Candidate cis-Regulatory Elements by ENCODE (SCREEN)
28	Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science (CEGS) CEGS Program Website PAR-19-204 - Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science (RM1) NOT-HG-20-013 - Emphasizing an Opportunity for New Institutional Applicants in Response to PAR-19-204 Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science (RM1)
29	Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network eMERGE Network Program Website eMERGE Consortium - Harmonizing Clinical Sequencing and Interpretation for the eMERGE III Network eMERGE Resources
30	Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen) ClinGen Consortium Website ClinGen Copy Number Variants (CNVs) Web Series Ritter - A case for expert curation: an overview of cancer curation in the Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen) Luo - ClinGen myeloid malignancy variant curation expert panel recommendations for germline RUNX1 variants
31	Clinical Sequencing Evidence-Generating Research (CSER) Program CSER Program Website CSER Consortium Website
32	Analysis, Visualization, and Informatics Lab-space (AnVIL)
33	NIH Biomedical Knowledgebase and Biomedical Data Repository FOAs PAR-20-089 - Biomedical Data Repository (U24) PAR-20-097 - Biomedical Knowledgebase (U24) NOT-HG-20-017 - Notice of Special Interest: Genomic Data Repositories (PAR-20-089) and Knowledgebases (PAR-20-097) PAR-20-100 - Genomic Community Resources (U24)
34	6th iDASH Genomic Privacy Challenge
35	Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) Research Program ELSI Research Program Website Center for ELSI Resources and Analysis (CERA) Request for Applications ELSI Congress Website
36	Small Business Program
37	Extramural Training and Career Development Training Program Website PAR-19-380 - Initiative to Maximize Research Education in Genomics: Diversity Action Plan (R25)
38	NHGRI Investigator-Initiated Research
39	Extramural Investigator-Initiated Highlights Bogard - A deep neural network for predicting and engineering alternative polyadenylation Fiszbein - Exon-mediated activation of transcription starts Applebaum - Is there a duty to reinterpret genetic data? The ethical dimensions Tischler - Cases in precision medicine: the role of tumor and germline genetic testing in breast cancer management
40	Library of Integrated Network-Based Cellular Signatures (LINCS) LINCS Program Website LINCS Consortium Website Common Fund Data Ecosystem Website
41	Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) H3Africa Program Website Sequencing African Genomes Yields New Data Resource with Broad Applicability
42	Harnessing Data Science for Health Discovery and Innovation in Africa Program (DSI-Africa)
43	Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) NIH UDN Program Website NHGRI UDN Program Website UDN Gateway Reuter - Yield of whole exome sequencing in undiagnosed patients facing insurance coverage barriers to genetic testing
44	Human Biomolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP) HuBMAP Program Website HuBMAP Common Fund Website NIH-Human Cell Atlas (HCA) 2020 Meeting RFA-RM-20-001 – Transformative Technology Development (UG3/UH3) RFA-RM-20-002 – Tissue Mapping Centers (U54)
45	Somatic Cell Genome Editing (SCGE) SCGE Program Website SCGE Funding Opportunities
46	4D Nucleome Program (4DN) 4DN Program Website 4DN Common Fund Funding Page
47	Data and Technology Advancement National Service Scholar (DATA Scholars)
48	Update to NHGRI’s Implementation of the NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy NIH Guide Notice Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) NHGRI News Release
49	New NHGRI Polygenic Risk Score Resource
50	NHGRI Director’s New Twitter Account @NHGRI_Director
51	*The Gene: An Intimate History* WETA Documentary WETA-NHGRI Partnership The Gene: An Intimate History Preview National Education and Telecommunications Association (NETA) Facebook Live Recording
52	*Genome: Unlocking Life's Code* Exhibition Unlocking Life‘s Code Website Jacksonville Museum of Science and Industry New Website Feature “Genomics: Insights”
53	New NHGRI Clinical Director
54	New NHGRI Intramural Precision Health Research Program
55	Elected to National Academy of Medicine
56	NHGRI Intramural Research Highlights Kastner - Mutations that prevent caspase cleavage of RIPK1 cause autoinflammatory disease Sidransky - Clinical evaluation of sibling pairs with Gaucher disease discordant for Parkinsonism Pavan - NPC1 deficiency in mice is associated with fetal growth restriction, neonatal lethality and abnormal lung pathology
57	The Genomics Landscape: A Monthly Newsletter from the NHGRI Director Listserv Sign-Up Issue Archive

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