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Jobs at NHGRI
NHGRI has four position openings for Health Scientist Administrators (Program Director and Scientific Review Officer). Program Director positions will have a special concentration in informatics and data science and will be located in the Division of Genomic Medicine, the Division of Genome Sciences, or the Office of Genomic Data Science. Scientific Review Officers will reside in the Division of Extramural Operations and will organize peer review meetings for all areas of genomic research at NHGRI.
Educational Resources
A knockout typically refers to an organism that has been genetically engineered to lack one or more specific genes.
… genes from an organism. Scientists create knockout organisms to study the impact of removing a gene from an …
Educational Resources
Mendelian inheritance refers to certain patterns of how traits are passed from parents to offspring.
… to patterns of inheritance that are characteristic of organisms that reproduce sexually. … Mendelian Inheritance, …
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An organelle is a subcellular structure that has one or more specific jobs to perform in the cell, much like an organ does in the body.
Policy Issues
Federally-funded research with human participants must comply with regulations that protect the rights and welfare of the participants.
… and discoveries that could not be otherwise obtained using model organisms or other methods. All federally-funded research … of genetic markers for human diseases. While model organisms remain powerful research tools, working with …
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NHGRI is advancing human health and spurring innovation by building bridges between our research laboratories and the academic, non-profit and private sectors.
… to proceed pending final negotiation and review. A model agreement developed by the NCI is provided. … of intellectual property rights to the collaborator. A model agreement developed by the NCI is provided. Materials … of confidential research information. Several different model versions of CDA's developed by the NCI are provided. … …
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NHGRI's technologies, inventions and discoveries are available for licensing.
… of Technology Transfer Abstract  … Mouse Models Mouse Model of Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome and Vascular … (NHGRI) and Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. (NHGRI) Murine Model of Niemann-Pick Disease Type C DHHS Reference No.: … Lead Inventor: William J. Pavan, Ph.D., (NHGRI) Mouse Model of Diamond-Blackfan Anemia DHHS Reference No.: …
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).
… of high-quality whole-genome sequencing data from these organisms. The successful applicant will have the opportunity …
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.
… between humans and domestic dogs provides an emerging model of aging. … One of the most common misconceptions is … the results obtained with humans. Dogs are a useful model for such comparisons because much of their environment, …
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The zebrafish is a powerhouse tool that helps researchers better understand the genes that are implicated in disease.
… National Institutes of Health live nearly half a million organisms that breathe underwater, develop from an egg so … researchers, the reasons for using zebrafish as their model organism of choice are as varied as the diseases they … For Dr. Brooks' research program, using the zebrafish as a model is both practical and eye-opening."The zebrafish …