Advisory council open session meets September 21st
The open session for the seventy-fifth meeting of the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research will meet Monday, September 21st, at Fishers Lane Conference Center. NHGRI Director Eric Green will report to council, followed by talks on Stevens-Johnson syndrome, precision medicine and a report from the Genomics and Society Working Group. The session will be broadcast live starting at 10 a.m. Eastern. (Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights)
Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights - September 15, 2015 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news
NHGRI welcomes 2015 ASHG/NHGRI education and public policy fellows
This fall, Cari Young, Sc.M., and Julie Nadel, Ph.D., will join the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) as American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)/NHGRI education and public policy fellows. Ms. Young will spend time working with NHGRI's Policy and Program Analysis Branch, while Dr. Nadel will direct her talents to the Education and Community Involvement Branch. Both credit their high school biology classes with inspiring the direction of their careers. (Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights)
Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights - September 11, 2015 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news
Who should decide? The Complex Ethics of Pediatric Genome Sequencing
A working group of the Clinical Sequencing Exploratory Research (CSER) Consortium has offered an ethical framework to guide pediatricians in pursuing clinical sequencing studies, interpreting results and disclosing findings. CSER was established to speed the integration of genomics into clinical practice and is funded by NHGRI and the National Cancer Institute, both part of NIH. The study was published today, Sept. 14, 2015, in the advanced online issue of Pediatrics. (Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights)
Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights - September 10, 2015 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news
The New NHGRI Brochure
In this month's The Genomics Landscape, Dr. Green highlights the new NHGRI brochure, NHGRI's Summer Workshop in Genomics held this past August, the request for public comment on human subjects protections, and welcomes NHGRI's new chief of communications, John Ohab. (Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights)
Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights - September 8, 2015 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news
An ancient tumor in dogs might teach new tricks about cancer in people
An ancient, sexually transmitted dog cancer has baffled researchers until now. Canine transmissible venereal tumor - CTVT - spreads when cancer cells move from one dog to another during sexual contact. By comparing the genomes of 186 healthy dogs to two dog tumor genomes, NHGRI researchers discovered genetic mutations that prevented the dogs' immune systems from detecting and fending off invading cancer cells. Findings were reported online in the July 31, 2015 edition of Genome Research. (Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights)
Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights - September 3, 2015 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news
HHS announces proposal to update rules governing research on study participant
Medical advances wouldn't be possible without individuals willing to volunteer to participate in research. Today's proposed changes to the Common Rule for protecting human research participants would update safeguards for participants and reduce unnecessary administrative burdens. For more information and details on providing comments on the proposed rule, go to: (Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights)
Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights - September 2, 2015 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news
Gene Therapy and the Biological Treatment of Hearing Loss
July's Genome Advance of the Month highlights a study in the journal Science Translational Medicine that demonstrated gene therapy as an effective way to improve hearing in patients with two genes linked to genetic prelingual deafness, or hearing loss that occurs before a child learns to speak. (Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights)
Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights - August 31, 2015 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news
ENCODE 2015: Research Applications and Users Meeting
On June 29 - July 1, 2015, NHGRI sponsored the ENCODE 2015: Research Applications and Users Meeting at the Bolger Center in Potomac, Md. The meeting featured: hands-on workshops on learning to navigate, analyze and integrate ENCODE and mouseENCODE data into your research; leading-edge research applications from distinguished invited speakers; tutorials on newly-available informatics pipelines that greatly facilitate working with ENCODE data and more. (Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights)
Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights - August 21, 2015 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news
Investigating why cancer comes back
For a patient with cancer, two of the most important words in the oncologist's lexicon begin with the letter "r": remission and relapse. Why do some patients stay in remission, while others see their cancer return? In recent research published online in July in the journal Leukemia, Paul Liu, M.D., Ph.D., a senior investigator, and Raman Sood, Ph.D., an associate investigator, for the Translational and Functional Genomics Branch at NHGRI, are trying to understand why leukemia patients relapse, and if there are any DNA-level mutations that account for the leukemia coming back. (Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights)
Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights - August 14, 2015 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news
Centers for Mendelian Genomics Program
In this month's Genomics Landscape, Dr. Green features the Centers for Mendelian Genomics Program, a report from the Genomic Medicine Meeting VIII: NHGRI's Genomic Medicine Portfolio, the NIH Strategic Planning Request for Information, and the Genome: Unlocking Life's Code Exhibition traveling to St. Louis, along with other information items that of interest. (Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights)
Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights - August 7, 2015 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news
Centers for Mendelian Genomics uncovering the genomic basis of hundreds of rare conditions
When the Centers for Mendelian Genomics (CMGs) program was launched nearly four years ago, it was charged with the ambitious task of identifying the genomic underpinnings of as many Mendelian conditions as possible. CMG investigators have made significant inroads in discovering genes underlying Mendelian conditions, while also uncovering new, previously unknown conditions and learning important details about the development of many others that scientists had described before. (Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights)
Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights - August 6, 2015 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news
NIH Strategic Plan determining emerging research needs
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is developing a five-year, NIH-wide strategic plan to outline a vision for biomedical research and identify crosscutting areas of research. The plan aims to continue guiding NIH with its mission to understand living systems, while applying best practices to extend human life and reduce sickness and disability. The Strategic Plan is due to Congress in late December 2015. (Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights)
Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights - August 5, 2015 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news
Give your feedback on the NIH-wide Strategic Plan
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is developing a five-year, NIH-wide strategic plan to outline a vision for biomedical research and identify crosscutting areas of research. NIH would like the public to review the framework in the NIH Request for Information (RFI) and on the NIH website, and provide feedback via the RFI submission site by August 16. For more information, go to: (Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights)
Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights - August 5, 2015 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news
Intramural trainees represent NHGRI at 2015 plain language competition
NHGRI intramural trainees and representatives from other NIH institutes recently participated in a high-energy science communications contest called the Three-minute Talk (TmT). Five NHGRI intramural trainees competed as finalists, taking on the challenge to use plain language and one PowerPoint slide to explain their research in three-minutes or less. Talks by Dr. Gustavo Sudre (right) and Dr. Melissa Harris placed second and third. (Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights)
Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights - August 5, 2015 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news
Join upcoming webinars on the NIH-wide Strategic Plan
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is developing a five-year, NIH-wide strategic plan to outline a vision for biomedical research and identify crosscutting areas of research. Join an upcoming webinar on August 5th, 11th or 13th to discuss the proposed plan. For more information, go to: (Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights)
Source: NHGRI Homepage Highlights - August 5, 2015 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: news
