| DETAILS: | Eric Green, M.D., director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), will give a keynote address titled "Genomics in 2K10 and Beyond: Charting a Course for Genomic Medicine" at the 2010 Biology Graduate Student Research Symposium on Oct. 15. In his address, Green is expected to discuss how the information revealed from the Human Genome Project has the potential to make personalized medicine a reality. In addition to serving as the third director of NHGRI, Green also serves as chief of the NHGRI Genome Technology Branch and as director of the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center, a position he has held since 1997. As part of his doctoral dissertation, Green studied sugar molecules that are attached to proteins. But the scientific debate about the possibility of a Human Genome Project in the late 1980s, coupled with his clinical interests in laboratory-based diagnostics, prompted him to switch scientific fields. Green became a postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory of Maynard V. Olson, then at the Washington University School of Medicine genetics department and a pioneer in developing approaches for studying whole genomes. In 1992, Green was appointed assistant professor of pathology, genetics, and internal medicine at the Washington University School of Medicine, as well as a co-investigator in the Human Genome Center at Washington University, which made substantial contributions to the early successes of the Human Genome Project. For further information about the symposium, contact the Department of Biology at 202-319-5267. |
