Training Grants: Human Genes and the Environment

The new Human Genes and the Environment Training Program will provide grants to train scientists in the emerging interdiscipline of environmental genomics/genetics to pursue a career path that integrates environmental sciences with human genetics and population genetics/genomics. The interdiscipline will build upon the established foundations in exposure biology and high throughput genomics, and expand the base to include additional scientific disciplines, such as human genetics, population genetics/genomics, statistics, epidemiology, environmental genomics/genetics, mechanistic environmental health sciences, systems biology, metabolomics, engineering, computational biology, behavioral medicine, other clinical and biomedical elements, and other relevant areas, to address the relative roles of genes and environmental exposures in complex diseases. The goal is to produce a new generation of scientists who are equally at home in genomics and environmental health sciences and can seamlessly interact with both groups of scientists. This cadre of scientists will not only be equipped to advance methodologies and technologies in Environmental Genomics/Genetics, but also use these tools and resources to disentangle and evaluate the enormous number of environmental factors which directly influence or interact with some genotypes to determine the resultant phenotypic expression and clinical or physiologic endpoints associated with the etiology and treatment of complex diseases.

For further information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-07-002.html

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