Digestive Diseases News
Winter 2008

Upcoming Meetings, Workshops, and Conferences

Genes, Environment, and Health Initiative: Translating Whole Genome Association Data into Clinical Practice

This meeting will explore the challenges in using basic findings from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Genes, Environment, and Health Initiative to positively affect health. The Initiative was launched in 2006 to help identify major genetic susceptibility factors for diseases with substantial public health impact and to develop technologies for measuring potentially causative environmental exposures.

The meeting, scheduled for March 10 to 11, 2008, at the NIH in Bethesda, MD, will feature presentations about important new genetic findings for inflammatory bowel disease and other illnesses, approaches to using those findings for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes, and ethical and social issues inherent in such research.

For more information and to register, visit www3.niddk.nih.gov/fund/other/GeiTranslation.

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NIH Publication No. 08–4552
March 2008