In two weeks, the human geneticist Eric green take the reins of the National human genome Research Institute (NHGRI), the arm of the National Institutes of health who led the sequencing of the human genome and led the effort to genomics US. In doing so, this M.D./Ph.D. not in the shoes now released the Director Francis Collins NIH in August 08 after 15 years.
A Energizer Bunny among scientists, Green will turn his energy and enthusiasm for the treatment with both monetary stimulus down funding position and the need for more urgent to transform the sequencing information into relevant biological and biomedical information. Continuing advances in DNA sequencing technology will make sequencing a routine bioassay. "The biggest challenges are how to ensure biological knowledge and functional studies to keep pace with an ever faster rate in our ability to generate the sequence," says Claire Fraser-Liggett University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. "Green is a very progressive thinker and has the ability to begin to develop strategies that all this new technology will allow us to do."
Green began his career at the NIH in 1994, focusing first on the physical mapping of chromosomes. He and his lab were part of planning and sequencing the genome, in particular chromosome 7, from beginning to end human. From the beginning of his group conducted comparative studies by sequencing the regions equivalent to human chromosome 7 in other mammals. In 02 he took over the intramural program of the Institute and as scientific director of the institute founded the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center, a branch of social and behavioral research, and programs on genomics and health World, as well as undiagnosed disease.
Green said one of his first priorities is to complete a long-term plan that has been in the works for the institute, with four white papers now available for public comment. And Eric Boerwinkle, a human geneticist at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston is confident Green will give the proper conduct of the Institute of $ 500 million. "He will be able to find the right balance between basic science and applied translational research "
photo credit: Maggie Bartlett, NHGRI
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