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NIH to fund four genomic research studies

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The NIH will fund four grants that support research on the potential issues of genomics, according to a press release. The grants will be funded through the National Human Genome Research Institute’s Centers of Excellence in Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Research program.

“Many ethical and social problems are not solved by experts in a single discipline alone,” Joy Boyer, senior program analyst at the institute’s CEER program, said in the release. “The CEER program brings together experts from often disparate fields who speak different languages and forms centers where they can study issues across disciplines.”

The four 4-year grants, which total an estimated $15 million, will support the following initiatives:

• Ethical, legal and social issues for precision medicine and infectious disease; awarded to Gail Geller, ScD; Jeffrey Kahn, PhD; and colleagues at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and Johns Hopkins University, to explore how genomic information affects infectious disease research;
• Genetic privacy and identity in community settings; awarded to Ellen Wright Clayton, MD, JD, and Bradley Malin, PhD, at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, to study privacy risks associated with genomic information;
• Utah Center of Excellence in ethical, legal and social implications research; awarded to Jeffrey Botkin, MD, MPH, and colleagues at the University of Utah, to study how family members communicate about prenatal and newborn screening; and
• Center on American Indian and Alaska Native genomic research; awarded to Paul Spicer, PhD; Cecil Lewis, PhD; Amanda Cobb-Greetham, PhD; and colleagues at the University of Oklahoma, to explore how genomic information in medical care can impact American Indian and Alaska Native communities and health care systems.

“These grants are diverse and forward-looking, while also relevant to public health and medicine today,” Boyer said.

Disclosures: Infectious Disease News was unable to confirm relevant financial disclosures at the time of publication.