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The Genomics Landscape
In the October 2019 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green focuses on recent efforts to make the human genome reference sequence useful to basic and clinical researchers and how increasing the representation of human genomic variation will remain key components of NHGRI’s Human Genome Reference Program.
… Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D. … I had the pleasure of giving the opening talk at the fourth annual … of other NIH institutes and centers; and the Foundation for the NIH (which raised funds with additional profit and … Strategic Planning News and Events  webpage. All the best, … Recent NHGRI ‘Genomics2020’ Strategic Planning events …
News Release
NIH will support research that incorporates DNA sequence information into electronic medical records.
… Steven Benowitz … A dozen awards from the National Institutes of Health will support research that … effects," said Rongling Li, M.D., Ph.D., program director for eMERGE in the Division of Genomic Medicine at NHGRI, a … to improve patient care." Researchers will look at the best ways to provide DNA test results to physicians and …
The Genomics Landscape
In the July 7, 2022 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., emphasizes the importance of the Technology Transfer Office and its mission to manage all the legal negotiations that help to protect federally funded research from being unduly exploited, while also giving that research avenues to reach patients through the commercialization of promising advances.
… four NHGRI-funded genomic scientists were named among the 100 most influential people of 2022 by Time magazine. … Eichler, Ph.D. , and Michael Schatz, Ph.D. were honored for their roles in leading the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) … accomplishment and well-deserved recognition.   All the best,   … As with all NIH-funded work, NHGRI intramural …
Research Funding
​CSER is rapidly advancing the knowledge necessary to develop best practices for implementating genomic sequence data into clinical care. ​
… Reports of genomic sequencing being applied to the medical care of individual patients are becoming more … care, 2) guide the development and dissemination of best practices for the integration of clinical sequencing … to informed consent in the context of clinical sequencing; compare and, to the extent feasible, develop standardized …
Staff
Elaine Ostrander is chief of NHGRI's Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch.
… is Chief and Distinguished Senior Investigator of the Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch at the … studies. She has identified alleles that increase risk for metastatic disease and continues to work within two large … risk for breast or ovarian cancer. Dr. Ostrander’s lab is best known, though, for their studies of the domestic dog as …
Intramural Training Office
In NIH's annual Three-Minute Talks (TmT) competition, postbaccalaureate researchers, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows from each institute’s intramural research program have to describe their research clearly and engagingly in just three minutes using one PowerPoint slide. The competition challenges trainees to develop their communication skills as they explain the background, key findings, and significance of their work.
… Desporte Postbaccalaureate Fellow, Brody Lab … Each year the NHGRI Intramural Training Office sponsors the Three-Minute Talks (TmT) competition, in which trainees pitch their research topic and why they think it’s cool in just three minutes. To help …
Event
NHGRI meeting focused on research that rapidly advances best practices for the implementation of genomic sequence data into clinical care.
… The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) … to rapidly advance the knowledge necessary to develop best practices for the implementation of genomic sequence data into clinical …
News Release
Cell Press' "Best of AJHG 2017-2018" includes an article authored by CRGGH researchers Daniel Shriner and Charles Rotimi.
… Bentley … Cell Press has assembled a reprint collection of the "Best of AJHG 2017-2018" , which includes an article authored by Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health (CRGGH), …
Research Training
The Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research provides students the opportunity to perform biomedical research with some of the world's best scientists.
… The Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research provides … disease, leading to the development of novel methods for the detection, prevention and treatment of heritable and … to perform biomedical research with some of the world's best scientists. … Summer Internship Program In Biomedical …
News Release
NIH researchers demonstrated that gene therapy may be the best method for correcting the single faulty gene that causes Niemann-Pick disease, type C1.
… Jeannine Mjoseth … For the first time, National Institutes of Health (NIH) … have demonstrated in mice that gene therapy may be the best method for correcting the single faulty gene that causes …