Human Genome

By AydreinJ

  • The Genome Research

    July 1, 1990: The Genome Research Review Committee is created so the National Center for Human Genome Research can conduct appropriate peer review of human genome grant applications.

  • The National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research

    January 22, 1991: The National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research meets for the first time in Bethesda, MD.

  • James Watson

    April 10, 1992: James Watson resigns as first director of the National Center for Human Genome Research. Michael Gottesman is appointed acting NCHGR director.

  • The United States Human Genome Project

    October 1, 1993: The United States Human Genome Project revises its five-year goals through September 1998.

  • National Center for Human Genome Research

    November 15, 1995: National Center for Human Genome Research celebrates its 5th anniversary. James D. Watson Lecture is established.

  • The Center for Inherited Disease Research

    September 1996: The Center for Inherited Disease Research [cidr.jhmi.edu] (CIDR), a project co-funded by eight National Institutes of Health (NIH) institutes and centers to study the genetic components of complex disorders, is established on the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center campus in Baltimore.

  • Scientists from government

    October 1996: Scientists from government, university and commercial laboratories around the world reveal a map that pinpoints the locations of over 16,000 genes in human DNA.

  • Department of Health and Human Services

    January 1997: Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Donna E. Shalala signs documents giving National Center for Human Genome Research a new name and new "status" among other research institutes at the National Institutes of Health. The new name, the National Human Genome Research Institute, more accurately reflects its growth and accomplishments. As an institute, NHGRI can more appropriately interact with other federal agencies and share equal standing with other institutes at NIH.

  • The National Human Genome Research

    December 1997: The National Human Genome Research Institute and other researchers identify an altered gene that causes Pendred Syndrome, a inherited form of deafness.

  • At a meeting of the main advisory body for the Human Genome Project (HGP),

    September 1998: At a meeting of the main advisory body for the Human Genome Project (HGP), project planners present a new plan to produce a "finished" version of the DNA sequence of the human genome by the end of 2003, two years ahead of its original schedule. The HGP plans to generate a "working draft" in 2001 that, together with the finished sequence, will cover at least 90 percent of the genome. The working draft will be immediately valuable to researchers and will form the basis for a high-q

  • The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and other Human Genome Project (HGP)

    December 1999: The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and other Human Genome Project (HGP)-funded scientists unravel for the first time the genetic code of an entire human chromosome. The findings are reported in the December 2 issue of Nature [nature.com].

  • The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

    April 3-6, 2000: The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Rare Disease Research, and the Don and Linda Carter Foundation sponsor the first NIH Conference on Holoprosencephaly.

  • The Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Research Programs of The National Human Genome Research

    January 16-18, 2001: The Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Research Programs of The National Human Genome Research Institute and the Department of Energy sponsor a conference to celebrate a decade of research and consider its impact on genetic research, health and policy.

  • The National Human Genome Research

    December 12-14, 2001: The National Human Genome Research Institute holds the planning conference, Beyond the Beginning: The Future of Genomics at the Airlie Conference Center in Warrenton, Virginia, to develop a broad vision of the future of genomics research that will lay the foundation for a bold new plan for NHGRI.

  • The National Human Genome Research I

    January 2002: The National Human Genome Research Institute and other scientists find a gene on chromosome 1 associated with an inherited form of prostate cancer in some families. The findings are published in the February issue of Nature Genetics [nature.com].

  • The National Human Genome Research

    February 2003: The National Human Genome Research Institute and the Department of Energy announce April 2003 events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the DNA double helix, the completion of the human genome sequence and the publication of the vision plan for NHGRI.

  • The National Human Genome Research

    January 26, 2004: The National Human Genome Research Institute and other scientists successfully create transgenic animals using sperm genetically modified and grown in a laboratory dish, an achievement with implications for wide ranging research, from developmental biology to gene therapy. The study [pnas.org] was published in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

  • NHGRI

    August 8, 2005: NHGRI announces it has awards grants totaling more than $32 million to advance the development of innovative sequencing technologies intended to reduce the cost of DNA sequencing and expand the use of genomics in biomedical research and health care.