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）于2003年成立，目的是确保非洲不会被排除在基因组革命之外。为了满足这一目标，该协会为科学家提供了一个论坛，以在遗传学和基因组学领域进行交互和交换信息。 通过在加纳阿克拉举行的早期会议 - 华盛顿特区 - 2004年，南非约翰内斯堡-2005，埃塞俄比亚 - 2006年，埃及 - 2007年 - 2007年和Yaounde，Cameroon- 2009年 - 2009年 - 非洲国家 /地区的欧洲国家和Yaounge contections，成功实现了这一目标。 这些会议提高了社会的基本目标，包括教育，网络，能力建设和研究发展。 此外，该社会通过以前的会议在非洲基因组项目的发展中发挥了作用。 我们认识到，随着基因组革命的发展，必须认真解决遗传研究和转化为临床实践的公平问题。 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。 最后，为了更好地整合非洲遗传研究的发展，开普敦的AFSHG会议将与南部非洲人类遗传学协会共同举行。 这是一种在以前的会议上成功使用的策略，以使现有的非洲科学组织参与基因组学。 公共卫生相关性：非洲人类遗传学学会是一个相对较新的社会，其使命是传播有关非洲人类遗传学研究的信息，建立指导网络，为非洲的人类遗传研究提供倡导，并鼓励协作研究。 这些任务已通过会议在很大程度上晋升。 当前的提案将支持南非开普敦协会第七届会议，并有望在开发如何将遗传知识转化为非洲临床医学的思想中至关重要。