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WHAT: American Psychological Association's 108th Annual Convention: Focus On Science Plenary Session Invited Address: Medical and Societal Consequences of the Human Genome Project

WHO: Francis S. Collins, Ph.D., M.D., Director, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD

WHEN: Saturday, August 5, 2000, 11:00 - 11:50 AM (Session 2154)

WHERE: Washington Convention Center - Meeting Room 40

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) is the lead agency in the International Human Genome Project, a publicly funded consortium that is mapping and sequencing the entire human genome. A "working draft" of the genome was announced in June and the project is expected to be finished in 2002.

In an invited address, Institute Director Francis S. Collins, Ph.D., M.D., will address the medical and societal consequences of the project. Congress mandates that the NHGRI must reserve at least five percent of its budget for its Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) program, which funds behavioral and social science research into the societal and psychological consequences of mapping the human genome.

 

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