2010 National DNA Day Online Chatroom Transcript
This is just one question from an archive of the National DNA Day Moderated Chat held in April 2010. The NHGRI Director and many genomics experts from across NHGRI took questions from students, teachers and the general public on topics ranging from basic genomic research, to the genetic basis of disease, to ethical questions about genetic privacy.
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What is it that you actually do and what are your daily responsibilities?
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Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D.:
Eric D. Green is the Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, a position he had held since late 2009. Previously, he served as the NHGRI Scientific Director (2002-2009), Chief of the NHGRI Genome Technology Branch (1996-2009), and Director of the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (1997-2009). Since the early 1990s, Dr. Green has been extensively involved in efforts to map, sequence, and understand eukaryotic genomes. His work included significant, start-to-finish involvement in the Human Genome Project, and more recently has involved several major efforts that utilize large-scale DNA sequencing to address important problems in genomics, genetics, and biomedicine.
Lots of email (receive probably 200 emails a day, send probably 100 emails a day), non-stop meetings, and an occasional conference call. But via those emails, meetings, and phone calls, I get to lead an outstanding organization whose mission is quite compelling-- figuring out how best to use genomics to understand human biology and improve human health. My real responsibility is to lead the largest funder of genomics research in the world-- which is actually a great honor and a huge challenge. |
| Flint Northern High School in MI (11th grade student) |
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