African Society of Human Genetics Conference

非洲人类遗传学会会议

• 批准号: 8066837
• 负责人: Scott Matthew Williams
• 金额: $ 6.5万
• 依托单位: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-01-17 至 2011-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8066837
• 关键词: Address; Advocacy; Africa; African; Americas; Attention; Bioethics; Cameroon; Clinical Medicine; Collaborations; Country; Data; Development; Disease; District of Columbia; Education; Egypt; Ensure; Ethiopia; European; Genetic; Genetic Research; Genetic Translation; Genetic Variation; Genome; Genomics; Ghana; Goals; Health; Human; Human Genetics; Knowledge; Left; Maryland; Medical Genetics; Medicine; Mentorship; Mission; Pharmacogenetics; Physicians; Population; Population Genetics; Public Health; Recording of previous events; Research; Research Personnel; Research Training; Resources; Role; Scientist; Societies; South Africa; Translating; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Work; benefit sharing; biobank; clinical practice; college; meetings; microbiome; research and development; scientific organization; symposium

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The African Society of Human Genetics (AfSHG) was formed in 2003 to ensure that Africa is not left out of the genomic revolution. To meet this objective, the society has provided a forum for scientists to interact and exchange information in the field of genetics and genomics. This has been successfully achieved through earlier meetings held in Accra, Ghana - 2003, Washington DC - 2004, Johannesburg, South Africa -2005, Addis Abba, Ethiopia - 2006, Cairo, Egypt - 2007, and Yaounde, Cameroon - 2009. Scientists and physicians from over 15 African countries, several European countries and the Americas attended these meetings. These meetings have advanced the fundamental goals of the society including education, networking, capacity building, and research development. In addition, this Society through previous meetings has been instrumental in the development of the African Genome Project. We recognize that as the genomic revolution develops it is important that the issue of equity in genetic research and translation into clinical practice needs to be seriously addressed. Previous meetings have dealt with some of these issues, but the 7th AfSHG meeting in March 2011 in Cape Town, South Africa will deal with these issues directly by having sessions that include the following topics: Public Health Genomics, The Microbiome and Health, Human History and Population Genetics, Genomic Medicine, Networking/Resource Building and Developing Collaborations, and Bioethics and Benefit Sharing. Invited speakers include Francis Collins (Director, NIH), Claire Fraser-Liggett (University of Maryland), James Lupski (Baylor College of Medicine), Abdallah Daar (University of Toronto), Dominic Kwiatkowski (Oxford University), Arnold L. Christianson (University of Witwatersrand) and Edison Liu, (Director, HUGO), several of whom have attended previous meetings of the AfSHG. Finally, in an attempt to better integrate the development of genetic research in Africa, the AfSHG meeting in Cape Town will be held jointly with Southern African Society for Human Genetics. This is a strategy that has been used successfully in previous meetings to engage existing African scientific organizations in genomics. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The African Society of Human Genetics is a relatively new society formed with the mission of disseminating information about human genetics research in Africa, establishing a mentorship network, providing advocacy for human genetic research in Africa, and encouraging collaborative research. These missions have been promoted to a large extent through meetings. The current proposal will support the 7th meeting of the Society in Cape Town, South Africa, and is expected to be critical in developing ideas of how to translate genetic knowledge into clinical medicine on Africa.

描述（由申请人提供）：非洲人类遗传学学会（AfSHG）成立于2003年，旨在确保非洲不会被排除在基因组革命之外。为了实现这一目标，该学会为科学家提供了一个论坛，让他们在遗传学和基因组学领域进行互动和信息交流。此前在加纳阿克拉（2003年）、华盛顿特区（2004年）、南非约翰内斯堡（2005年）、埃塞俄比亚亚的斯亚贝巴（2006年）、埃及开罗（2007年）和喀麦隆雅温得（2009年）举行的会议成功实现了这一目标。来自15个以上非洲国家、几个欧洲国家和美洲的科学家和医生参加了这些会议。这些会议推动了学会的基本目标，包括教育、网络、能力建设和研究发展。此外，通过以往的会议，该学会在非洲基因组计划的发展中发挥了重要作用。我们认识到，随着基因组革命的发展，重要的是，基因研究和转化为临床实践的公平问题需要认真解决。以前的会议已经处理了其中的一些问题，但2011年3月在南非开普敦举行的第七届AfSHG会议将通过包括以下主题的会议直接处理这些问题：公共卫生基因组学，微生物组与健康，人类历史和群体遗传学，基因组医学，网络/资源建设和发展合作，以及生物伦理和利益分享。受邀演讲嘉宾包括Francis Collins（美国国立卫生研究院院长）、Claire Fraser-Liggett（马里兰大学）、James Lupski（贝勒医学院）、Abdallah Daar（多伦多大学）、Dominic Kwiatkowski（牛津大学）、Arnold L. Christianson（威特沃特斯兰德大学）和Edison Liu （HUGO院长），其中一些人曾参加过AfSHG以前的会议。最后，为了更好地整合非洲遗传研究的发展，在开普敦举行的AfSHG会议将与南部非洲人类遗传学会联合举行。这是一种在以前的会议上成功使用的策略，使现有的非洲科学组织参与基因组学。