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Five pieces from the Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code exhibition are now on display at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Bethesda, MD.
… your microbiome affect your health and influence your risk for many disorders.     What’s in Your Genome?       Building 31, Floor 4C Elevator Lobby     Explore the human genome – the three-billion part instruction manual … Light on Human Disease Dogs have been called a person's best friend, but they also can tell us a lot about human …
News Release
NHGRI has created a new publicly available digital archive and search aid for accessing documents related to the Human Genome Project and the history of genomics.
… Archives include trove of historical materials from the Human Genome Project. … … The Francis Collins Collection … the revolutionary importance of the Human Genome Project and how critical its associated documentation would be to … is the largest. Since Dr. Collins remained NHGRI director for five years after the completion of the Human Genome …
Research at NHGRI
NHGRI researchers are creating foundational tools and methods to expand genomics research, ultimately leading to medical breakthroughs.
… Genetic diseases affect millions of Americans every day, and research is key to improving our ability to diagnose and treat these diseases. At the National Human Genome Research Institute, our researchers …
For Patients and Families
​Pharmacogenomics combines the science of how drugs work, called pharmacology, with the science of the human genome, called genomics.​
… about a person's genetic makeup, or genome, to choose the drugs and drug doses that are likely to work best for that particular person. This new field combines the …
News Release
NHGRI has appointed Dr. Jennifer Troyer as the incoming director as the incoming director of the Division of Extramural Operations (DEO) within NHGRI’s Extramural Research Program (ERP). She will provide leadership in coordinating the institute’s extramural research grants, operations and policies.
… Dr. Troyer to provide leadership for extramural grants, operations and policies. … The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of … that the extramural research community is served to the best of our collective abilities. I am excited to have the …
Staff
Dr. Tyra Wolfsberg is the associate director of the Bioinformatics and Scientific Programming Core at the National Human Genome Research Institute. ​
… Dr. Wolfsberg is the associate director of NHGRI's Bioinformatics and … bench biologists can quickly and easily obtain results for their large-scale experiments. She has collaborated with … experimentally generated sequences to a genome and then compare the positions of interest to the coordinates of …
The Genomics Landscape
In the January 2024 issue of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green announces the appointment of Dr. Adam Phillippy as the founding director of the Center for Genomics and Data Science Research (CGDSR).
… genomics advances! Last year ended with exciting news from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which approved two gene therapies for the treatment of sickle cell disease. About 100,000 … recording of that discussion is also  available .  All the best,   … Mouse genome rewriting and tailoring of three …
Media Availability
Researchers have created a promising new method to accurately and more comprehensively analyze and interpret DNA sequence information from cancer patients.
… clinical and biological relevance to a patient's cancer. … The findings eventually may help guide individualized patient … focused on the problem of how the clinician might best use the large amounts of data in a cancer patient's … enable genomic profiling to become a more accessible tool for clinicians evaluating cancer patients. The researchers …
The Genomics Landscape
In the October 2023 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green, reflects on the twelve years of groundbreaking research by the Clinical Sequencing Evidence-generating Research (CSER) consortium.
… It went down to the wire! But the federal government managed to stay ‘open for business’ as we ushered in Fiscal Year 2024 on October 1. … Happy 10th birthday to The Genomics Landscape!    All the best,   … Repeat polymorphisms underlie top genetic risk loci …
Staff
Dr. Adam Phillippy is head of the Genome Informatics Section and the chief and senior investigator in the Center for Genomics and Data Science Research at NHGRI.
… Dr. Adam Phillippy is the director of the Center for Genomics and Data Science research and head of the Genome … for the reconstruction of complete genomes and is best known for his work on completing the human genome from …