B2G@CU.NIH.GOV (04/12/91)
The NIH and the DOE recently established the NIH-DOE Joint Working Group on the Mouse. The NIH and DOE currently have four other joint working groups: physical mapping, sequencing, informatics, and the ethical, legal g; informatics; and social, legal and gal and social issues. The mission of the Joint Working Group on the Mouse, in general, will be to facilitate the implementation of the five-year program goals, establish research priorities, identify research, training and technical needs, and coordinate the research activities of U.S. researchers with that of researchers in other countries, especially Europe and Japan. The Working Group reports to the NIH Program Advisory Committee on the Human Genome and the corresponding advisory committee of the Department of Energy. The members of the Joint Working Group are: Verne Chapman, Roswell Park Cancer Center; Neal Copeland, NCI-Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center; Frank Costantini, Columbia University; William Dove, University of Wisconsin; Joe Nadeau, The Jackson Laboratory; Roger Reeves, The Johns Hopkins University; Dr. Janet Rossant, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Oliver Smithies, University of North Carolina; Richard Woychik, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The first meeting of the Joint Working Group will be May 1 in Bethesda, Maryland. The group plans to meet twice a year. Minutes will be made available to interested individuals; in addition, a summary of each meeting will appear on the Genome Bulletin Board. If you would like additional information about the NIH-SOE Joint Working Group on the Mouse, please contact me. My telephone number is (301) 496-7531. Bettie J. Graham, Ph.D. Chief, Research Grants Branch National Center for Human Genome Research/NIH