NHGRI Takes New, WGS Look at Mendelian Diseases
July 27, 2021
By Allison Proffitt
July 27, 2021 | The National Institutes of Health has made a five-year, nearly $80 million commitment to the establishment of a Mendelian Genomics Research Consortium of five clinical laboratories and one data coordinating center. The Consortium will build on previous National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) work to develop new methods for identifying the genetic causes of single-gene diseases.
The clinical centers will be run by Stephen B. Montgomery, Ph.D., at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California; Deborah A. Nickerson, Ph.D., at the University of Washington, Department of Genome Sciences, Seattle; Anne O'Donnell-Luria, M.D., Ph.D., at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Boston Children's Hospital; Eric J. Vilain, M.D., Ph.D., at the Center for Genetic Medicine Research at Children's National Hospital, Washington, D.C.; and Jennifer E. Posey., Ph.D., at the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston. The data coordination center, run by Susanne May, Ph.D., at the University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, will manage the release of genomic data and facilitate data sharing.