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The Genomics Landscape
In the August 6, 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, Dr. Eric Green talks about NHGRI's completion of the third phase of the ENCODE Project and how it reveals the most extensive catalog to date of candidate functional elements that may regulate the genes in the human and mouse genomes.
… of $75 million in funding over five years for the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Genomic Risk Assessment and
News
To prevent an emerging genomic technology from contributing to health disparities, a scientific team funded by the National Institutes of Health has devised new ways to improve a genetic testing method called a polygenic risk score.
… improved existing polygenic risk scores using health records and ancestrally diverse genomic data from the All of … initial look at the improved polygenic risk scores. NIH’s Electronic Medical Health Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network will …
The Genomics Landscape
In the November 5, 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, Dr. Eric Green focuses on the 2020 Strategic Vision.
… Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D. … October was a particularly busy (and exciting) month for NHGRI. In addition to celebrating the … Project (HGP), which was featured in last month’s The Genomics Landscape , the institute also published the 2020 … development. …   In 2017, NIH and the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) established a fellowship …
News Release
NHGRI has awarded $6.4 million in first-year funding to establish Diversity Centers for Genome Research at three institutions: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Meharry Medical College; and the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
… Centers will support innovative genomics studies, providing training for students and tackling important genomics research questions for … for Genome Research and Principal Investigators Meharry Medical College — Nashville, TN Anil Shanker, Ph.D.   …
Outreach
Become an official member of the National DNA Day Network by planning and registering your event.
… Become an official member of the National DNA Day Network by planning and registering your event. Your event will be listed on the … your programming and find a way to involve genetics and/or genomics. If you do not have an established outreach or …
Graduate Medical Education
An opportunity for a 4-to-8-week elective in the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD.
… Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD. It is open to residents and clinical fellows enrolled in ACGME-accredited training … Hematology Hematopathology Hepatology Infectious Diseases Medical Genetics Medical Oncology Nephrology Neurology Pain and Palliative …
The Genomics Landscape
In the August 2018 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green announces the recent launch of the NHGRI Genomic Innovator Award.
… Genomes ,  ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) , and  Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network . Embedded within such …
News Release
National Institutes of Health researchers have discovered a specific network of proteins that is necessary to restore hearing in zebrafish through cell regeneration. The study may inform the development of treatments for hearing loss in humans.
… … Hearing loss affects around 37.5 million Americans, and most cases come from the loss of hearing receptors known … Research Institute’s (NHGRI) Translational and Functional Genomics Branch, led the study in collaboration with … found that hair cell regeneration in zebrafish relied on a network of proteins that can switch genes on and off, known …
15 Ways Genomics Influences Our World
Advances in genomics are helping you access information about your genome from your home.
… can buy a test that will read specific places in their DNA and provide them with information about their genome? … started as a place to search historical and family records to gain genealogical clues, and has now expanded to … Society of Human Genetics  and the  American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics .  The National Institutes of …
The Genomics Landscape
In the December 2, 2021 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., spotlights the re-opening of the Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) in Washington, D.C.
… Yu, M.D., Ph.D., Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School   John Tisdale, M.D., National Heart, Lung, … cancer, non-invasive prenatal screening, reliability of electronic health records, and importance of population screening. Some of the …