African Society of Human Genetics Conference

非洲人类遗传学会会议

基本信息

批准号：
9472021
负责人：
Scott Matthew Williams
金额：
$ 6万
依托单位：
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-09-25 至 2020-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9472021
关键词：
Address Adoption Advocacy Africa African Americas Asia Attention Bioethics Cameroon Cardiovascular Diseases Clinical Clinical Medicine Collaborations Country Data Development District of Columbia Education Egypt Ensure Ethical Issues Ethics Ethiopia European Funding Future Genetic Genetic Research Genetic Translation Genetic Variation Genetic study Genome Genomic approach Genomic medicine Genomics Ghana Goals Health Hereditary Disease Heredity Human Human Genetics Joints Knowledge Leadership Literature Malignant Neoplasms Maryland Medical Genetics Mission Modems National Human Genome Research Institute Participant Pharmacogenetics Physicians Population Population Genetics Postdoctoral Fellow Recording of previous events Research Research Infrastructure Research Personnel Research Project Grants Resources Role Rwanda Sampling Scientist Senegal Societies South Africa Stem Cell Research Students Training Translating Trust Uganda United States National Institutes of Health Variant Work Zimbabwe benefit sharing biobank career catalyst clinical practice disorder risk human genomics meetings microbiome neuropsychiatric disorder new technology next generation sequencing precision medicine professor programs research and development scientific organization symposium

项目摘要

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 since then 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, Yaounde, Cameroon - 2009, Cape Town. South Africa - 2011 , Accra - 2013 and Dakar, Senegal - 2016. Scientists and physicians from over 21 African countries, several European countries, Asia, 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. The theme of the upcoming meeting will be "Human genetics and genomics in Africa: Challenges for both rare and common genetic disorders". The current proposal is requesting funding for this meeting, one to be held in Rwanda in in 2018 and a third to be held in 2019 in an African host country to be determined. We recognize that as the genomic revolution develops it is important that equity in genetic research and translation into clinical practice needs to be seriously addressed. Previous meetings have dealt with some of these issues, and the results of these meetings have been incorporated into the global genomics enterprise to the extent that African studies, although still relatively rare, are gaining prominence in the genetics literature. The theme of the upcoming meeting has been chosen to specially incorporate several issues in modem genomics research, including the use of Next Generation Sequencing to detect all variants, the role of stem cell research in genetics research and the practical and ethical issues surrounding biobanking of samples in Africa. The Microbiome and Health , Human History and Population Genetics, Genomic Medicine, Networking/Resource Building and Developing Collaborations, and Bioethics and Benefit Sharing are themes that will be explored during the meeting. Invited speakers include Stylianos Antonarakis (Geneva), Raj Ramesar (Cape Town). Clement Adebomowo (Maryland), Moses Joloba (Uganda), Collen Masimirembwa (Harare, Zimbabwe). Chris Mathew (Johannesburg) and Charles Rotimi (NIH), several of whom have attended previous Meetings of the AfSHG. Finally, to better integrate the development of genetic research in Africa, the AfSHG meeting in Cairo will be held jointly with the National Society of Human Genetics of Egypt. This is a strategy that has been used successfully in previous meetings to engage existing African scientific organizations in genomics.

非洲人类遗传学协会 (AfSHG) 成立于 2003 年，旨在确保非洲不被排除在基因组革命之外。为了实现这一目标，社会从那时起提供了科学家在遗传学和基因组学领域互动和交流信息的论坛。 2003 年在加纳阿克拉举行的早期会议已成功实现这一目标，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，开罗，埃及 - 2007 年，雅温得，喀麦隆 - 2009 年，开普敦。南非 - 2011 年、阿克拉 - 2013 年和塞内加尔达喀尔 — 2016 年。来自超过 21 个非洲国家的科学家和医生，其中一些欧洲国家、亚洲和美洲国家出席了这些会议。这些会议有推进社会的基本目标，包括教育、网络、能力建设、和研究开发。此外，本协会通过之前的会议已为非洲基因组计划的发展发挥了重要作用。即将到来的主题会议主题为“非洲人类遗传学和基因组学：罕见和常见疾病面临的挑战” 遗传性疾病”。目前的提案正在为这次会议申请资金，会议将在卢旺达将于 2018 年举办，第三届将于 2019 年在非洲举办，东道国待定。我们认识到，随着基因组革命的发展，基因研究的公平性非常重要需要认真解决转化为临床实践的问题。之前的会议已经处理过讨论了其中一些问题，并且这些会议的结果已纳入全球非洲研究虽然仍然相对较少，但正在取得进展在遗传学文献中享有盛誉。即将举行的会议的主题选定为特别纳入了现代基因组学研究中的几个问题，包括 Next 的使用用于检测所有变异的世代测序、干细胞研究在遗传学研究中的作用以及围绕非洲样本生物样本库的实际和伦理问题。微生物组和健康、人类历史和群体遗传学、基因组医学、网络/资源建立和发展合作、生物伦理学和利益共享是本次会议的主题会议期间进行了探讨。受邀演讲者包括 Stylianos Antonarakis（日内瓦）、Raj Ramesar（开普敦）。克莱门特 Adebomowo（马里兰州）、Moses Joloba（乌干达）、Collen Masimirembwa（津巴布韦哈拉雷）。 Chris Mathew（约翰内斯堡）和 Charles Rotimi（NIH），其中几位曾参加过之前的会议 AfSHG 会议。最后，为了更好地整合非洲基因研究的发展，在开罗举行的 AfSHG 会议将与国家人类遗传学学会联合举行埃及。这一策略已在之前的会议中成功运用，以吸引现有人员参与。非洲基因组学科学组织。