[Federal Register: April 15, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 72)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Announcement of a Meeting to Explore Feasibility of Establishing
a NIST/Industry Consortium on Gene Expression Metrology
AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
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SUMMARY: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
invites interested parties to attend a pre-consortium meeting on May
16, 2005 to be held on the NIST campus in Boulder, Colorado. The goal
of the one-day meeting is to evaluate industry interest in creating a
NIST/industry consortium focused on gene expression metrology. The
goals of such a consortium would include the development of measurement
methods of known quality for microarray gene expression results. The
consortium would be supervised and administered by NIST. Consortium
research and development would be conducted by NIST staff members along
with at least one technical representative from each participating
member company. Membership in the Consortium is open to manufacturers
of complete microarray gene expression systems (i.e. systems which
include all components required to measure a genome-wide expression
profile form isolated RNA). Consortium Members will be required to
provide the NIST staff members with a complete system representative of
their technology platform to support measurement and standards
development. The initial term of the consortium is intended to be three
years.
DATES: The meeting will take place on May 17, 2005, at 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Interested parties should contact NIST to confirm their interest at the
address, telephone number or FAX number shown below.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place at the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST), 325 Broadway Room 4550, Boulder,
Colorado.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marc Salit, Advanced Chemical Science
Laboratory, Stop 8310, National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST), Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8310. Telephone: (301) 975-3646; FAX:
301 975-5449; e-mail: salit@nist.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Any program undertaken will be within the
scope and confines of The Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986 (Pub.
L. 99-502, 15 U.S.C. 3710a), which provides federal laboratories
including NIST, with the authority to enter into cooperative research
agreements with qualified parties. Under this law, NIST may contribute
personnel, equipment, and facilities but no funds to the cooperative
research program. This is not a grant program.
Dated: April 8, 2005.
Hratch G. Semerjian,
Acting Director.
[FR Doc. 05-7592 Filed 4-14-05; 8:45 am]
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