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September 2011: NIH genome institute announces key leadership appointments
James C. Mullikin, Ph.D., currently acting director of the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC), is selected to be the center's permanent director. NHGRI created NISC in 1997 to develop its own genome sequencing capabilities and to collaborate with other NIH intramural researchers. (more)
May 2011: NHGRI Researchers Win AAAS Prize for Neanderthal Genome Analysis
On February 19, two researchers from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), along with members of the Neanderthal Genome Analysis Project, won the Newcomb Cleveland Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for the article, A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome. The article was published in the May 7, 2010, issue of Science, who also named it the journal's best article of 2010. NHGRI prize winners James C. Mullikin, Ph.D., acting director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC), and Nancy F. Hansen, Ph.D., a staff scientist in Dr. Mullikin's research group in NHGRI's Genome Technology Branch conducted the comparative analyses of the modern human versus the Neanderthal DNA sequence. (more)
2009
November 2009: Researchers Analyze First Complete DNA Sequence Generated at the National Institutes of Health
A group of more than a dozen gene hunters from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) recently gathered at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC) in Rockville, Md. to analyze data from the first complete DNA sequence of an NIH Clinical Center patient. The volunteer patient is enrolled in the ClinSeqTM study, a trans-NIH effort to understand the genetic roots of heart disease and the challenges of using genome sequencing tools for personalized health benefit in a clinical research setting. (more)
2007
October 2007: NISC: Tracing the Sequence of Events Leading to 21st Century Genomics
Ten years ago, the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC) began humbly with six gel-based sequencing machines crowded into a few rooms of borrowed lab space. Today, NISC is not only one of the jewels of the NIH intramural program but also a highly productive sequencing center at the forefront of contemporary worldwide genomics research. (more)