Billion Base Pair Celebration
National Academy of Sciences
November 23, 1999
The Billion Base Pair Celebration noted the completion and deposition into GenBank of one billion base pairs of human genome DNA sequence. The celebration honored hundreds of scientists across the country and around the world whose commitment and ingenuity have been vital to reaching this milestone in the Human Genome Project.
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Program
Bruce Alberts
President
National Academy of Sciences |
Welcome and Reflections on the Human Genome Project |
Neal Lane
Assistant to the President for Science and Technology
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy |
Congratulations |
Francis Collins
Director
National Human Genome Research Institute |
Where We've Been and Where We're Going |
Donna Shalala
Secretary
Department of Health and Human Services |
Remarks |
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Awards to:
Baylor College of Medicine
Washington University
Whitehead Institute
NHGRI HGP Managers
NCBI GenBank Staff |
Bill Richardson
Secretary
Department of Energy |
Remarks |
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Awards to:
Joint Genome Institute
DOE HGP Managers |
Sanger Centre Award Video |
Tom Harkin
United States Senator |
Robert Krulwich
ABC TV Correspondent |
Genomics for the Public: Making Sense of it All |
Francis Collins |
Closing Remarks |
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