Director's Report-Related Documents February 2022 Director's Report [28.3 MB] Director's Report [139 MB] Watch on YouTube No. Relevant Documents 1 New Chief Data Science Strategist & Director, Office of Genomic Data Science 2 Training, Diversity, and Health Equity (TiDHE) Office TiDHE Office TiDHE News Feature NHGRI Action Agenda Webpage 3 NASEM Consensus Study 4 Genomics and Health Disparities Lecture Series 5 Presidential Rank Award 6 Bold Predictions Seminar Series 7 Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium T2T Website Nurk - The complete sequence of a human genome 8 Francis Collins Steps Down as Director, National Institutes of Health Francis Collins to Step Down as Director of the National Institutes of Health HHS Secretary Becerra Names Dr. Lawrence Tabak Acting Director of NIH 9 President Biden Visits NIH 10 Retirement of NIH Associate Director for Behavioral and Social Science Research 11 NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy NOT-OD-22-029 - Request for Information on Proposed Updates and Long-Term Considerations for the NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy Refreshing NIH’s Genomic Data Sharing Policy 12 Fiscal Year 2022 Appropriations 13 Mourning the Loss of Debbie Nickerson In Memoriam: Deborah Nickerson, Genome Pioneer NHGRI Tribute 14 Mourning the Loss of Tom Caskey 15 Mourning the Loss of Haig Kazazian 16 2021 American Society of Human Genetics Awards 17 Elected to National Academy of Medicine 18 Elected to AAAS 19 New HHMI Investigators 20 New President, The Jackson Laboratory 21 Science’s 2021 Breakthrough of the Year & Runners Up 22 The Scientist’s Top Technical Advances of 2021 23 Nature’s Seven Technologies to Watch in 2022 24 Genome Sequencing Program (GSP), Centers for Mendelian Genomics (CMG) CMG Program Website Baxter - Centers for Mendelian Genomics: A decade of facilitating gene discovery 25 Human Genome Reference Program (HGRP) HGRP Website HGRP Consortium Website 26 Comparative Genomics: Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE) Program NHGRI Notice of NIH Participation in the National Science Foundation Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE) Program NSF Program Solicitation NSF EDGE Website 2020 NHGRI Strategic Vision 27 Technology Development Program Technology Development Program Website Technology Development Coordinating Center (TDCC) Website RFA-HG-21-006 - Transformative Nucleic Acid Sequencing Technology Innovation and Early Development (R01) RFA-HG-21-007 - Transformative Nucleic Acid Sequencing Technology Innovation and Early Development (R21) RFA-HG-21-008 - Transformative Nucleic Acid Sequencing Technology Innovation and Early Development (R43/R44) 28 Small Business Program 29 ENCyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) ENCODE Program Website ENCODE Portal ENCODE Participants NHGRI Genomics2020 Strategic Planning ENCODE Data Utilization Workshop Search Candidate cis-Regulatory Elements by ENCODE (SCREEN) Reilly - Direct Characterization of cis-Regulatory Elements and Functional Dissection of Complex Genetic Associations Using HCR-FlowFISH Nasser - Genome-Wide Enhancer Maps Link Risk Variants to Disease Genes Zhang - A Single-Cell Atlas of Chromatin Accessibility in the Human Genome NHGRI K99/R00 Funding Opportunities 30 Impact of Genomic Variation on Function (IGVF) 31 Developmental Genotype-Tissue Expression (dGTEx) Project NHGRI Press Release dGTEx Program Website 32 NHGRI Analysis, Visualization, and Informatics Lab-space (AnVIL) AnVIL Program Website AnVIL Portal Future Directions of the NHGRI AnVIL Workshop 33 Phenotypes and Exposures (PhenX) Toolkit PhenX Toolkit Sickle Cell Disease Collection COVID-19 Variable Compare Tool 34 Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network eMERGE Network Website eMERGE Resources Kullo - Polygenic Risk Scores for Diverse Ancestries: Making Genomic Medicine Equitable 35 Clinical Sequencing Evidence-Generating Research (CSER) Program CSER Program Website CSER Consortium Website Gutierrez - Examining access to Care in Clinical Genomic research and Medicine: Experiences from the CSER Consortium Phillips - U.S. Private Payers' Perspectives on Insurance Coverage for Genome Sequencing Versus Exome Sequencing: A Study by the Clinical Sequencing Evidence-Generating Research Consortium (CSER) 36 Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen) ClinGen Program Website ClinGen and GeT-RM Collaborative Project 37 Polygenic Risk Methods in Diverse Populations (PRIMED) Consortium PRIMED Program Website PRIMED Consortium Website Mercader - Predicting Diabetes Risk in Diverse Populations: What Next? 38 International 100K+ Cohort Consortium (IHCC) IHCC Consortium Website Global Genomic Medicine Collaborative (G2MC) 39 Workshop on Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Gene-Environment Interaction Research ELSI Research Program Website Workshop Webpage 40 Supporting Talented Early Career Researchers in Genomics 41 Human Heredity & Health in Africa (H3Africa) H3Africa Consortium Website Polygenic Risk Methods in Diverse Populations (PRIMED) Consortium Harnessing Data Science for Health Discovery and Innovation in Africa (DS-I Africa) 42 4D Nucleome (4DN) 4DN Data Portal 4DN Seminar Series 4DN Overview 4DN Funded Projects Dekker - Systematic Evaluation of Chromosome Conformation Capture Assays Guttman - RNA Promotes the Formation of Spatial Compartments in the Nucleus Disteche/Noble - Single-Cell Landscape of Nuclear Configuration and Gene Expression During Stem Cell Differentiation and X Inactivation Pombo - Cell-Type Specialization is Encoded by Specific Chromatin Topologies 4DN YouTube Channel 43 All of Us Research Program All of Us Research Program Website Karriem Watson, DHSc, Named Chief Engagement Officer of NIH’s All of Us Research Program NIH’s All of Us Research Program Selects Next Chief Medical and Scientific Officer Holly Garriock, Ph.D., Selected as Chief Cohort Development Officer of All of Us Research Program 44 New Informed Consent Information 45 Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) Greenhouse 46 New and Refreshed NHGRI Fact Sheets 47 Introducing The Forefront of Genomics Newsletter 48 NHGRI History of Genomics Program The Meaning of Eugenics Symposium Website The Meaning of Eugenics Symposium Recordings Eugenics and Scientific Racism Fact Sheet Eugenics and Scientific Racism Timeline 49 Family Health History Social Media Campaign Family Health History Website Wildin - Modernizing Family Health History: Achievable Strategies to Reduce Implementation Gaps Families Sharing Health Assessment and Risk Evaluation (SHARE) Workbook 50 Inter-Society Coordinating Committee for Practitioner Education in Genomics (ISCC-PEG) Scholars 51 Genome: Unlocking Life's Code Exhibition 52 New Chair, National Cancer Advisory Board 53 History of Population Descriptors in Genetics Byeon - Evolving Use of Ancestry, Ethnicity, and Race in Genetics Research-A Survey Spanning Seven Decades Human Geneticists Curb Use of the Term ‘Race’ in their Papers 54 High-Profile Intramural Research Program Highlights This Genetic Sleuth Has Uncovered A New Category Of Disease Marked By Sporadic Fevers And Inflammation Rare disease with Fatal Diagnosis Doesn't Stop this Woman from Living Life – and Helping Others H3Africa Funds Scientists, Advances Genomics, and Fosters Collaboration in Africa 55 One-Stop-Shop’ to Stay Connected Last updated: March 1, 2022