NHGRI Technology Development Coordinating Center
Stimulating an interactive culture among Genome Technology Program grantees.
Supporting greater productivity through collaboration.
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Purpose & Goals
Advances in genomic technologies and methods have facilitated research that is producing significant insights into biology and disease. To further these advances, NHGRI supports the Genome Technology program, which aims to accelerate innovation, development, and early dissemination of genomic technologies. The development of completely novel approaches and the refinement of current technologies to achieve orders-of-magnitude improvements are foundational goals of the program. With these goals in mind, the Genome Technology program consists of a growing set of interrelated efforts that enable novel and refined technologies to proceed through discovery and development, towards commercialization and clinical utilization.
The goal of this initiative is to develop new technologies and improve the quality and efficiency of DNA sequencing and direct RNA sequencing through the support of approaches and instrumentation that will significantly advance the field of genomics.
The goal of this initiative is to catalyze the development and advancement of new technologies that can comprehensively analyze genomic features such as methods to evaluate gene regulation and nuclear organization, and the dynamics of genomic features in single and mixed populations of cells.
This initiative is focused on supporting the advancement of novel technologies and methods to inexpensively and accurately synthesize specified sequences of nucleic acids and synthetic constructs at the scale needed for genomics-based research.
This initiative seeks to catalyze technology development that enable generation of protein sequencing data at sufficient scale, speed, cost and accuracy for routine use in studies of genome biology and function, and in biomedical and clinical research.
The NHGRI Technology Development Coordinating Center provides an infrastructure that addresses the need for closer interactions between these efforts. This enables opportunities for collaboration among grantees, accelerated technology innovation, and improved dissemination of program advances and resources to the broader biomedical research community.
Outreach Events
June 09, 2025
Eric P. Newman Education Center
Washington University in St. Louis
and online
Students, faculty, and biomedical researchers were invited to this FREE hybrid event.
Learn how new capabilities in genome science are developed and used to advance biological insights.
Watch the recorded lectures below.
Keynote Address
Rob Mitra, Ph.D.
Washington University in St. Louis
Emerging Technologies for Understanding
Human Genome Function
Siyuan (Steven) Wang, PhD
Yale University
Stirling Churchman, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
Gene Yeo, Ph.D., MBA
UCSD
Jingyi Jessica Li, Ph.D.
UCLA
Emerging Technologies for Making and Sequencing
RNA and DNA
Sasha Levy, Ph.D.
BacStitch DNA
Winston Timp, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University
Andrew Laszlo, Ph.D.
University of Washington
Kristin Koutmou, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
