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The NICHD Birth Defects Initiative, started in 2000, supports basic scientists and clinicians whose research projects span basic, translational, and clinical approaches to understanding the developmental biology and genetics of structural birth defects. In addition to support by NICHD, the group now includes structural birth defects researchers funded by other NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices participating in the newly convened Trans-NIH Structural Birth Defects Working Group. Every year at their annual meeting, researchers funded through the Initiative discuss plans and progress of their research, exchange ideas and information, share resources, and foster synergistic collaborations that enhance Initiative goals. A 2014 NIH-funded workshop, Developing an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda for Genetics of Birth Defects, recommended more efforts be devoted to encouraging collaborations between developmental biologists doing basic research in animal models and physician scientists doing clinical research. Toward this end, a special round table discussion, “Establishing successful basic science and clinical collaborations to study structural birth defects” will be held as part of this year’s 10th NICHD Structural Birth Defects Meeting and VideoCast for wider dissemination.
Moderator:
Lorette C. Javois, Ph.D., Developmental Biology and Structural Variation Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
Discussants:
Mustafa Khokha, M.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics, Yale School of Medicine
Ian Krantz, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Simon Rhodes, Ph.D., Dean of the School of Science, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Liliana Solnica-Krezel, Ph.D., Head, Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
John Wallingford, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Texas, Austin |
