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Dr. Temesgen Fufa is a program director in NHGRI's Division of Genome Sciences.
… understand how gene regulation plays a role in development and human disease. Dr. Fufa is involved with directing a portfolio of grants focused on the application of multiomics … techniques of stem cell differentiation, functional genomics and multi-omics to elucidate the mechanisms of …
About Genomics
An interactive timeline listing key moments from the history of the project.
… ** James Watson was the first NHGRI Director and appears here as part of our history collection. Despite his scientific … Dr. Watson’s career was also punctuated by a number of offensive and scientifically erroneous comments about his … interactive timeline lists key moments from the history of the project.  1984-86 Early meetings assess the …
The Genomics Landscape
In the August 6, 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, Dr. Eric Green talks about NHGRI's completion of the third phase of the ENCODE Project and how it reveals the most extensive catalog to date of candidate functional elements that may regulate the genes in the human and mouse genomes.
… As the summer heat bears down on the country and the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic continues, I … Each news cycle brings reminders about the importance of science and its critical role in society, and NHGRI … more committed than ever to facilitating the use of genomics for addressing all threats to human health – …
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Dr. Simona Volpi is the deputy director of the Division of Genomic Medicine at the National Human Genome Research Institute.
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… Dr. Volpi is the deputy director of the the Division of Genomic Medicine at the National Human … Project as well as the newly established Implementing Genomics in Practice II (IGNITE-II) program. Dr. Volpi is … Dr. Simona Volpi is the deputy director of the Division of Genomic Medicine at the National Human Genome …
The Genomics Landscape
In April 6, 2023 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., talks about how NHGRI will hold a symposium on National DNA Day, April 25, highlighting relevant and interesting topics in genomics and concluding with the annual Louise M. Slaughter National DNA Day Lecture.
… Charles Rotimi, Ph.D. , was featured on the cover of the March issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics … to the issue’s publication of Charles’ 2022 American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) presidential address, … . The address pointed out that “as we learn to read and interpret information coded in the living and evolving …
About Genomics
The Human Genome Project was an inward voyage of discovery led by an international team of researchers looking to sequence and map all the genes of our species.
… The Human Genome Project (HGP) is one of the greatest scientific feats in history. The project was a voyage of biological discovery led by an international group of … of a select set of organisms. Launched in October 1990 and completed in April 2003, the Human Genome Project’s …
The Genomics Landscape
In the December 2018 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green recaps progress from NHGRI strategic planning process events in 2018.
… As signaled by the rapid arrival of cold weather and the seemingly overnight arrival of holiday-themed daily life, the year 2018 is rapidly coming … a strategic planning session prior to the official start of the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology  Meeting on …
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Jyoti Dayal is a program officer in the Division of Genomic Medicine, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
… Ms. Dayal is a program officer in the Division of Genomic Medicine, National Human Genome Research Institute … Diseases Network (UDN) and Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) programs. … Diseases Network, Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) …
Health
Genomic medicine involves using genomic information as part of clinical care and the health outcomes and policy implications of that clinical use.
… using genomic information about an individual as part of their clinical care (e.g. for diagnostic or therapeutic decision-making) and the health outcomes and policy implications of that clinical use. Already, genomic medicine is making an … in the expectation that knowledge generated as a result of that extraordinary research effort would be used to …
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.
… HHS and NIH are Equal Opportunity Employers. … The Program Directors will manage a portfolio of grants, provide scientific expertise and advice to NHGRI … groups. The Program Director in the position in the Division of Genomic Medicine  will provide … provide scientific expertise and support of computational genomics and data science activities within NHGRI and across …