Director's Report Related Documents - February 2008
Announcements
- President Bush Announces Recipients of Presidential Medal of Freedom [georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov]
- President Bush Honors Medal of Freedom Recipients [georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.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
NHGRI Director Francis S. Collins Wins Presidential Medal of Freedom
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
- NIH Launches Human Microbiome Project
- Human Microbiome Funding [nihroadmap.nih.gov]
- Epigenomics Funding [nihroadmap.nih.gov]
- Consortium Publishes Phase II Map of Human Genetic Variation
- A second generation human haplotype map of over 3.1 million SNPs
- Genome-wide detection and characterization of positive selection in human populations
- Study Identifies Novel Gene Alterations in Lung Cancer
- Characterizing the cancer genome in lung adenocarcinoma
Microbiome Project
Centers for Excellence in ELSI Research (CEER)
HapMap
The Tumor Sequencing Project
ENCODE and modENCODE
Mammalian Gene Collection
Population Genomics Funding Table
Genome-Wide Association Studies Policy
Genome Technology Status of Commercialization
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]
- 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
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