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The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) is an institute of the National Institutes of Health, located in Bethesda, Maryland. NHGRI began as the Office of Human Genome Research in The Office of the Director in 1988.
The Bethesda campus has been occupied since 1938 when the original National Institute of Health began to expand outside of Washington, D.C. [1] The Clinical Center, Building 10, opened in 1953 with 540 beds, thus allowing for clinical research.
In 1989, as part of the launch of the Human Genome Project, the National Center for Human Genome Research (now known as The National Human Genome Research Institute) was founded in Bethesda. [11] This made Bethesda the national hub for genetic research as genetic researchers from around the country came to help sequence the human genome. [12]
The Bayview Campus in Baltimore, Maryland houses the research programs of the National Institute on Aging, National Institute on Drug Abuse, and National Human Genome Research Institute with nearly 1,000 scientists and support staff. [24]
January 3–4, 1989 – The program advisory committee on the human genome holds its first meeting in Bethesda, MD.; October 1, 1989 – The National Center for Human Genome Research (NCHGR) is established to carry out the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) component of the United States Human Genome Project.
Teri Ann Manolio is an American physician, epidemiologist, and geneticist. She is director of the Division of Genomic Medicine at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), as well as Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
William A. Gahl currently serves as the Clinical Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the NIH main campus in Bethesda, MD. [1] Gahl graduated with a BS degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972. He earned his MD degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1976 and his PhD degree in 1981.
The NIH Clinical Center is a hospital solely dedicated to clinical research at the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The Clinical Center, known as Building 10, consists of the original part of the hospital, the Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, and the newest addition, the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center ...