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Diversity Center
The Morehouse School of Medicine established the Center of Genomic Diversity that aims to create a transformative impact on genomics research and health outcomes in minority populations, fostering an inclusive and equitable research environment.
… Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) will build a world-class genomics research environment that is sustainable and … research infrastructure that empowers knowledge research for elucidating novel genomic connections to health in … The AC will serve the MSM faculty and the Morehouse Common Spirit Health clinical research initiative; including …
News Release
NIH recently awarded approximately $6.8 million in grants to several research teams to study the biology of rare and undiagnosed diseases.
… diagnose them. … The funding establishes two new research centers, including a Model Organisms Screening Center and a … Finally, a one-year grant supports a central biorepository for storing UDN research participant tissue samples. "The … and a coordinating center. The UDN is supported by the NIH Common Fund and builds on the success of the Undiagnosed …
Policy Issues
Revisions to the Common Rule modernize, simplify, and enhance oversight for human subjects research in the United States.
… The final version of the Common Rule was published in the Federal Register on January … aim to "modernize, simplify, and enhance" oversight for human subjects research in the United States to address … or investigate potential public health signals, onset of disease outbreaks, or conditions of public health …
Research at NHGRI
NHGRI center focused on computationally intensive approaches to analyze large-scale genomic data and identifying genetic contributions to human disease.
… The Center for Genomics and Data Science Research focuses on the development … focus on identifying genetic contributions to human disease. … Genomics is, fundamentally, a data science. … genomes of thousands of species and opening new avenues for studying genomic function and disease. Their efforts in …
News Release
eMERGE Network will support multiple clinical sites and a coordinating center with $75 million over five years.
… the provision of $75 million in funding over five years for the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) … risk-assessment and management methods for a number of common diseases.  Approximately half of the clinical sites … … About NHGRI and NIH … Related Content … NIH funds centers to improve the role of genomics in assessing and …
News Release
NHGRI researchers have discovered that Mediterranean populations may be more susceptible to an autoinflammatory disease because of evolutionary pressure to survive the bubonic plague.
… Prabarna Ganguly, Ph.D. … Genomic variants that cause common periodic fever have spread in Mediterranean … populations may be more susceptible to an autoinflammatory disease because of evolutionary pressure to survive the … FMF-causing genomic variants have been positively selected for in Mediterranean populations over centuries. The findings …
Clinical Research
The Undiagnosed Diseases Program provide answers to patients with mysterious conditions that have long eluded diagnosis.
… is part of the Undiagnosed Disease Network (UDN), an NIH Common Fund initiative that focuses on the most puzzling … of Rare Diseases Research (ORDR) (now the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences Division of Rare … diseases. The team, drawn from various NIH institutes and centers, studies a patient's clinical and laboratory results …
Research Funding
The centers define the state-of-the-art study designs and methods to find variants and genes underlying Mendelian disorders.
… The National Human Genome Research Institute funded the Centers for Mendelian Genomics (CMG) in 2011 with the charge to … approaches. This knowledge can also lend insight into the common or more complex phenotypes that involve similar genes, …
The Genomics Landscape
In the March 2024 issue of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green spotlights the Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science (CEGS) Program evaluation.
… Mooney, Ph.D. , will become the director of NIH’s Center for Information Technology (CIT). In this role, Sean will … ). …   As stewards of federal funds, the institutes and centers that make up NIH are expected to take a critical and … commonly used in research and they have many diseases in common, dogs have been generally underutilized in genomics …
Research at NHGRI
The Center for Precision Health Research, formerly Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, studies how health and disease are related to genetic, genomic and metabolic variation.
… The investigators in the Center for Precision Health Research (CPHR) develop and evaluate … to improve the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease to foster next-generation healthcare. … The Center … spectrum of disorders, with a range of heritability from common diseases associated with common genetic variants to …