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The Genomics Landscape
In the September 2021 issue of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., details how social media provides NHGRI staff with a space to talk about their work, make genomics topics easy to understand, and show how genomics can positively affect people.
… to the array of updates about the many happenings at NHGRI and in genomics, I would like to draw your attention to efforts of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to gather … is required by September 27.  All the best,  …  NHGRI’s social media platforms provide a great venue for conveying …
News and Events
Discover the secrets hidden in your genome through illustrations, videos, engaging stories, and the latest science that impacts your life.
… The following social media channels are maintained by NHGRI's Office of … about the institute. … On Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, X and other social media channels, the National Human Genome … about its research, funding opportunities and initiatives with larger, more diverse audiences. Through …
Talking Glossary
La raza es una construcción social que se utiliza para clasificar a las personas.
… Raza … La raza es una construcción social que se utiliza para clasificar a las personas. … Race … generating racial classifications to identify, distinguish and marginalize some groups across nations, regions and the world. Race divides human populations into groups …
Event
A public two-day National Institutes of Health (NIH) symposium that brings together experts from the biological and social sciences to clarify and contextualize – but not resolve - the complexities around sex, gender, and genomics by considering them in their scientific, ethical, and historical contexts.
… disease may take so long to develop Biology, Sex, and Transgender People: A Resource Page Sex contextualism in … in the genomics era: Clarifying complexities in light of social and genomic advances and their histories - is … and genomics by considering them in their scientific, ethical, and historical contexts. These interdisciplinary …
Research Funding
The Division of Genomics and Society focuses on the societal issues that need to be studied and addressed as genomics advances.
… The Division of Genomics and Society is responsible for exploring societal issues … to genomics, incorporating and extending the institute's Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) research program and …
Research at NHGRI
The NHGRI Intramural Research Award recognizes research achievements by trainees in basic, clinical, and social behavioral science research.
… achievement or a larger body of work of exemplary quality and significance. … 2016 Award Recipients. Front Row (left to … Intramural Research Program, including basic, clinical, and social behavioral science research. To date, thirty trainees …
News Release
A 2018 workshop led by Alaska Native people provides a path towards collaborative, community-driven genomics research.
… research. … In August 2020 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified that Indigenous groups such as … disparities, an associate investigator in the NHGRI's Social and Behavioral Research Branch and co-author on the … enhancing genomic research is framed around the ethical principles of tribal sovereignty and research …
Research Training
Competitive scholarships for students from disadvantaged backgrounds to support careers in biomedical, behavioral and social science health-related research.
… that are committed to careers in biomedical, behavioral, and social science health-related research. … The UGSP offers … support, paid research training during the summer, and paid employment and training at NIH after graduation. …
Research Funding
NSIGHT explores the implications, challenges and opportunities with the use of genomic sequence information in the newborn period.
… Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the National Human Genome … promising new DNA-based analysis. Research related to the ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) of the possible …
News Release
NHGRI researchers seek help from people with Sickle Cell Disease to find the factors - environmental, social and genetic - that impact the severity of symptoms.
… over their bodies, kidney problems, higher risk of stroke and in rare cases, chronic leg ulcers. These and other symptoms result when mutated red blood cells take a … affected by SCD to find the factors - environmental, social and genetic - that impact the severity of symptoms. …