The Human Variome Project/China Country Development Program
Channel: Human Variome Project / Global Variome
Date: 15/06/2012

The Human Variome Project/China Country Development Program is a grant program administered by the Human Variome Project International supporting small-scale projects that promote education and knowledge sharing across national and cultural borders.

The aim of the Human Variome Project:China Country Development Program (HVPCDP) is to support the growth of a viable, sustainable network of HVP Country Nodes across the world. This growing network will support the achievement of the broader aims of the Human Variome Project including ensuring that all information on genetic variation can be collected, curated, interpreted and shared freely and openly, and that this open sharing will result in speedier, better and cheaper diagnosis and treatment of genetic disorders.

Using funds generously provided by China, the Board of Human Variome Project International has established a pool of money for the purposes of promoting knowledge exchange activities among and between institutions and organisations that are members or who host members of the Human Variome Project consortium. In allocating these funds in 2012, it has been decided to launch a process open to members of the Project. This document contains all the information relating to the program and sets out the process for making applications in 2012.