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The Genomics Landscape
In the June 2024 issue of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green recognizes the 2023 recipients of the Bettie J. Graham Leadership Award for Enhancing DEIA in the Genomics Workforce.
… and alpha-1-antitrypsin, a protein associated with lung and liver disease. The machine learning algorithm …
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CMG investigators have made significant inroads in discovering genes underlying Mendelian conditions and have uncovered 470 new, previously unknown conditions.
… Human Genome Research Institute and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute launched the Centers for Mendelian …
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Dr. Douglas Stewart is an associate investigator in NHGRI's Center for Precision Health Research.
… his work is to improve disorder-specific clinical care and cancer risk prediction, while translating insights garnered … blastoma, a rare childhood malignancy of the lung that arises during fetal lung development, as well as nephroblastoma, neuroblastoma …
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Karen Surabian is a Senior Licensing and Patenting Manager in the NHGRI Technology Transfer Office (TTO).
… 2023. Prior to that she was at the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), Office of Technology … she was a technology transfer specialist at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Technology Transfer Center (TTC) (Frederick Unit) as a Cancer Research Training Award (CRTA) fellow. While …
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Dr. Iman Martin is a program director in NHGRI's Division of Genomic Medicine.
… has been stationed at NIH previously at the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute and the National Cancer Institute. She is passionate about the NHGRI mission, …
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NHGRI will fund a set of genome sequencing and analysis centers whose research will focus on understanding the genomic bases of common and rare human diseases.
… and program outreach. In addition, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) will contribute to both the … among and between populations across the world, and The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), an NHGRI partnership with the … of the National Institutes of Health, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) plans, conducts, and …
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NIH researchers have created a data resource show how differences in an individual's genome can affect gene activity and contribute to disease.
… tissues, and can predispose people to diseases such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes. "GTEx was designed to … specific variants influence the biological function of the lung, kidney and other organs." "Projects supported by the … from the nine most available tissue types: fat, heart, lung, skeletal muscle, skin, thyroid, blood, and tibial …
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Researchers funded by NIH have completed a detailed atlas documenting stretches of human DNA that influence gene expression.
… expression in the liver might be different than in the lung or heart, for example, and how those differences relate … than 53 different tissue types (including brain, liver and lung) from autopsy, organ donation and tissue transplant … Fund and administered by NHGRI, NIMH and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), all part of NIH. As one example of …
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Dr. Clesson Turner is the director of the Reverse Phenotyping Core and a staff clinician in the Center for Precision Health Research of the National Human Genome Research Institute.
… Reed National Military Medical Center and as the chief of cancer genetics at the Murtha Cancer Center prior to retiring from the U.S. Army in 2019. … Whole-exome sequencing reveals germline-mutated small cell lung cancer subtype with favorable response to DNA …
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.
… , chief and NIH distinguished investigator in NHGRI’s Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch, recently led … the laboratory of Elaine Ostrander, Ph.D. , chief of the Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch . …  April … Us Research Program, Gary Gibbons, M.D. , National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and Joni Rutter, Ph.D., National …