PROGRAMS FOR GENOMIC APPLICATIONS

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, recently launched the Programs for Genomic Applications. This program is a major initiative to advance functional genomic research related to heart, lung, blood, and sleep health and disorders. The goals of the Programs for Genomic Applications include developing information, tools, and resources to link genes to biological function on a genomic scale. All the information, reagents, and tools developed in the Programs for Genomic Applications will be freely available in a timely manner to the research community. In addition, the Programs for Genomic Applications will provide workshops, courses, and visiting scientist programs to facilitate the training of researchers in the use of the data and related technologies developed by the Programs for Genomic Applications. The URL for the PGA Website is: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/resources/pga/index.htm

Many of these programs utilize rat and mouse animal models. The programs that focus primarily on rat and mouse animal models are as follows:

Rat Models

  • Physiogenomics Of Stressors In Derived Consomic Rats
    Dr. Howard J. Jacob - Medical College of Wisconsin

 • Microarray Expression Profiling Of Rodent Models Of Human Disease
    Dr. John Quackenbush - The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR)

Mouse Models

 • Genomics Of Cardiovascular Development, Adaptation And Remodeling
    Dr. Seigo Izumo - Harvard Medical School-Beth Israel Deaconess     Medical Center

 • Mouse Models Of Heart, Lung, And Blood Diseases
    Dr. Luanne L. Peters - Jackson Laboratory
    Many of these programs utilize rat and mouse animal models.

NIH Staff contact:

Susan Old, Ph. D.
olds@nhlbi.nih.gov