February 2004 Council Documents

February 2004 Council Documents

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NACHGR 2004 Roster

Report: NIH Director's Blue Ribbon Panel on the Future of Intramural Clinical Research

NIH News Releases

• NIH Announces Co-Chairs for Blue Ribbon Panel on Conflict of Interest Policies [nih.gov]
  
  
• Dr. Janet Rowley to Give First Trent Lecture
  
  
• NIH Director Names Dr. Norka Ruiz Bravo Deputy Director for Extramural Research [nih.gov]
  
  
• Richard Turman Named Associate Director for Budget [nih.gov]
  
  
• Keusch to Step Down as Director of the Fogarty International Center and NIH Associate Director for International Research [nih.gov]

NIH Roadmap

• News Release: NIH Announces Strategy to Accelerate Medical Research Process [nih.gov]
  
  
• Article: The NIH Roadmap [sciencemag.org] (Science, Vol. 302, 3 October 2003)
  
  
• Roadmap Overview [nihroadmap.nih.gov] (September 2003)
  
  
• NIH Backgrounder: NIH Roadmap - Themes, Implementation Groups and Initiatives [nihroadmap.nih.gov]
  
  
• NIH Roadmap Grants and Funding Opportunities [nihroadmap.nih.gov]

NHGRI Sequencing Update

• Sequence Update Chart
  
  
• News Release: NHGRI Funds Next Generation of Large-Scale Sequencing Centers
  
  
• News Advisory: Chimp Genome Assembled by Sequencing Centers
  
  
• Workshop: Sequencing the Chimpanzee Genome: What have we learned? (March 12, 2004)
  
  
• News Release: Veneman Announces Bovine Genome Sequencing Project
  
  
• News Advisory: Honey Bee Genome Assembled
  
  
• Joint News Release: UniProt consortium goes on-line [www.ebi.ac.uk]
  
  
• News Release: Beyond Genes: Scientists Venture Deeper Into the Human Genome

HapMap Update

• News Advisory: International HapMap Consortium Publishes Scientific Strategy
  
  
• Article: The International HapMap Project (Nature, Vol. 426, 18/25 December 2003)

ELSI Program Announcements

• PA-4-051 : ELSI Small Grant Research Program (R03) *
  
  
• PA-04-050: ELSI Regular Research Program (R01) [grants2.nih.gov]

*Please note: The R03 program announcement and the R21 program announcement published by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) are no longer active. NHGRI is still interested in supporting research under these mechanisms and strongly encourage researchers and scholars to use these mechanisms to support pilot projects, feasibility studies or small focused research projects (ELSI program only).

Background information on the CEGS Program

• Discussion of the Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science (CEGS) Program (Feb. 9, 2004)
  
  
• Essence of a Center of Excellence in Geonimc Science (CEGS)
  
  
• Program Announcement: PAR-02-021 [grants.nih.gov]: Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science (CEGS)

Announcements and Items of Interest

• Article: The completed human genome: implications for chemical biology (Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 2003, 7:511-515)
  
  
• News Release: Genetic and Rare Disease Information Center Now Offers Assistance in Spanish
  
  
• News Release: NHGRI Launches Social and Behavioral Research Branch
  
  
• Agenda: First Meeting of the Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in Genomic and Protein-Related Inventions (Feb. 27-28, 2004)
  
  
• Conference Summary: New Directions for Sickle Cell Therapy in the Genome Era (Nov. 19-21, 2003)
  
  
• NIH News Advisory: Engaging Latino Communities in Genomic Science and Issues
  
  
• Article: ACMG Statement on Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing
  (Genetics in Medicine, Jan/Feb 2004, Vol. 6, No. 1)
  
  
• Statement of Administration Policy [whitehouse.gov] (S. 1053 - Genetic Non-Discrimination Act of 2003)
  
  
• News Release: Transgenic Animals Produced Using Cultured Sperm
  
  
• CV: Sean R. Eddy
  
  
• CV: Manolis Kellis
  
  
• CV: Dierdre R. Meldrum
  
  
• CV: William S. Talbot
  
  

NHGRI/NIH Active Grants

Budget Table