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Director's Report Related Documents - February 2008

Announcements

NHGRI Director Francis S. Collins Wins Presidential Medal of Freedom

• President Bush Announces Recipients of Presidential Medal of Freedom [whitehouse.gov]
• President Bush Honors Medal of Freedom Recipients [whitehouse.gov]
• Statement by Elias Zerhouni, M.D., Director of the National Institutes of Health
  
  
• Johns Hopkins' Victor Mckusick Wins Prestigious 'Japan Prize' [hopkinsmedicine.org]
• Institute of Medicine Elects 65 New Members, Four Foreign Associates [nationalacademies.org]
  Mike Boehnke, Andy Feinberg, Aravinda Chakravarti and Wylie Burke elected to the IOM

Recent News Releases

• Low Maternal Cholesterol Tied to Premature Birth
• News Feature: NHGRI's Nobel Connections
• Scientists Compare Twelve Fruit Fly Genomes
• New Genetic Variants Associated with Lipid Levels & Risk for Coronary Artery Disease
• Researchers Uncover New Piece to the Puzzle of Human Height
• International Consortium Announces the 1000 Genomes Project
• News Feature: NHGRI Investigator Pam Schwartzberg Wins AAI Investigator Award

NHGRI Initiatives

Microbiome Project

• NIH Launches Human Microbiome Project
• Human Microbiome Funding [nihroadmap.nih.gov]
• Epigenomics Funding [nihroadmap.nih.gov]

Centers for Excellence in ELSI Research (CEER)

• NHGRI Funds New Centers for Excellence in Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Research

HapMap

• Consortium Publishes Phase II Map of Human Genetic Variation
• A second generation human haplotype map of over 3.1 million SNPs
• Supplement to A second generation human haplotype map of over 3.1 million SNPs
• Genome-wide detection and characterization of positive selection in human populations

The Tumor Sequencing Project

• Study Identifies Novel Gene Alterations in Lung Cancer
• Characterizing the cancer genome in lung adenocarcinoma

ENCODE and modENCODE

• Researchers Expand Efforts to Explore Functional Landscape of the Human Genome
• Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project

Mammalian Gene Collection

• Targeted discovery of novel human exons by comparative genomics
• Current Status of MGC, XGC & ZGC

Population Genomics Funding Table

• Gene Environment Association (GENEVA) Studies Funded in FY07

Genome-Wide Association Studies Policy

• Implementation Guidance and Instructions for Applicants: Policy for Sharing of Data Obtained in NIH-Supported or Conducted Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) [grants.nih.gov]

Genome Technology Status of Commercialization

• Commercialization update for new sequencing technologies

Recent Articles

• From Science Magazine: Breakthrough of the Year: Human Genetic Variation [sciencemag.org]
• From Nature Magazine: The Human Microbiome Project [nature.com]

Recent Funding Opportunities

• ELSI Regular Research Program (R01 [grants.nih.gov]
• ELSI Small Research Grant Program (R03) [grants.nih.gov]
• Technology and Methods Development for Genomics, Population Genomics and ELSI (R01) [grants.nih.gov] [grants.nih.gov]
• Feasibility Studies to Develop Technology and Methods for Genomics, Population Genomics and ELSI (R21) [grants.nih.gov]
• Development and Application of New Technologies to Targeted Genome-wide Resequencing in Well-Phenotyped Populations (R01) [grants.nih.gov]

Sequencing Status Update

• Sequencing Table

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Last Reviewed: July 15, 2008