Concept Clearance: Center for Inherited Disease Research, Contract Renewal - Lawrence Brody
Channel: National Human Genome Research Institute
Date: 2022-10-18

(September 19, 2022 - The National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research (NACHGR) holds an open session for its 97th annual meeting.

Lawrence Brody, Ph.D., director of NHGRI's Division of Genomics and Society, presents the contract renewal for the Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR) concept clearance.   CIDR, founded in 1996 through a unique trans-NIH contract to Johns Hopkin University, has a mission to support the genetics community by providing high-quality, cutting edge genomics services and technologies in order to expand our understanding of disease and catalyze discoveries that translate to patient care.  The CIDR contract renewal concept clearance poses three major questions to Council:  

(1) Should NIH institutes and centers support an integrated program to review and carry out large-scale genomic research projects for investigators?  
(2) Should this facility retain flexibility with regard to what genomic services and in what scope are offered? 
(3) Should the program be structured so that it may be closed if its services are no longer required?

A question and answer session follows.

Open Session Agenda: https://www.genome.gov/event-calendar/97th-Meeting-of-National-Advisory-Council-for-Human-Genome-Research