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On May 23, 2023, NHGRI will host a webinar: ELSI Research and the New NIH Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy.
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On September 23, 2024, the NHGRI ELSI Program hosted a pre-application webinar to provide an overview of a new Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the ELSI Congress to support the organization of the next series of ELSI Congress meetings in 2026, 2028 and 2030.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions from the September 23, 2024 pre-application webinar the NHGRI ELSI Program hosted.
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NHGRI currently sponsors a biennial meeting to bring together those with an interest in the ELSI of genomic research, known as the ELSI Congress.
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Several NIH Institutes, Offices and Centers partnered to host a two-day virtual workshop on May 28-29, 2024, to further explore the recommendations from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) 2023 report, Using Population Descriptors in Genetics and Genomics Research: A New Framework for an Evolving Field, with regards to legacy genomic data. 
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The NHGRI Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Research Program will host the Pre-Application Webinar for the Building Partnerships and Broadening Perspectives to Advance ELSI Research (BBAER) Program - New Limited Competition for Resource Limited Institutions on August 28, 2024.
Virtual Exhibit
The Human Genome Project changed traditional understandings of how and why scientific research is conducted. It was, however, not without its detractors. Early in 1990, there was an effort to stop funding for the nascent Human Genome Project, in the form of a letter writing campaign.
Historical Collections
The NHGRI History of Genomics Program produced this series of virtual exhibits using archival materials from our own special collections to tell interesting and important stories from the Human Genome Project and the larger history of genomics.
Virtual Exhibit
The Gene Sweepstakes — or GeneSweep as it became popularly known — was a three-year-long, sweepstakes-style contest organized by British bioinformatician Ewan Birney, Ph.D., of the European Bioinformatics Institute. Scientists participated in the contest by betting on the total number of protein-coding genes that would be identified in the human genome sequence generated by the Human Genome Project.
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On December 11, 2023, NHGRI, in collaboration with several other NIH Institutes and Offices, recently renewed the three Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFOs) used to support investigator-initiated research on the ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) of human genome research.