Personal Genome Project

2010 Events

• October 26-29, 2010. TEDMED. San Diego, CA. Details.
• Jul 29-31, 2010 Open Science Summit 2010, International House, Berkeley, CA. Details.
• June 3, 2010: Our Genome Ourselves, World Science Festival, New York. Details.
• June 2-4, 2010: Consumer Genetics Show. Boston, MA. Details.
• May 28, 2010: Games for Health Conference. Boston MA. Details. Details
• May 10-14, 2010: Third Human Variome Project Integration and Implementation Meeting, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris.
• April 28th, 2010: PGP Developer's Summit. Boston MA.
• April 27th, 2010: Genomes, Environments, Traits (GET) Conference and 3rd Annual Personal Genome Project Meeting, Boston. Details.

2009 Events

• Nov 1-3, HUGO Symposium on Genomics and Ethics, Law and Society. Geneva, Switzerland. "Redefining privacy, public genomes & open consent" Jeantine Lunshof. Details.
• Oct 21-24, Pop!Tech conference, Camden, Maine. Presentation from George Church. Details.
• Sep 16-19, 2009: 5th International DNA Sampling Conference, Banff, Alberta, Canada. Presentations from George Church and Jeantine Lunshof.Details.
• September 14-17, 2009: Cold Spring Harbor Personal Genomes meeting. Details.
• August 18, 2009: Science NovaNOW features a segment on the Personal Genome Project. Founder, George Church, also participated in an "Ask the Expert" Q&A feature addressing questions from the public. More info.
• May 11-12 (Chicago IL): 2009 Silverstein Lecture Series. George Church. Personal Genomes and Web 2.0 Volunteerism. Details.
• June 9 - June 12 2009. Consumer Genetics Show. Boston, MA. Details.
• April 30, 2009. George Church. Xconomy Forum: Tomorrow's Biotech -- Innovators and Innovations" 2pm - 5:45pm. Cambridge, MA. Details.
• April 29, 2009. John Halamka, M.D. (PGP-10). Keynote Panel: "The Future of Personal Genomics." 8:45am - 9:45am. Boston. Bio-IT World Conference. Details.
• April 27, 2009. George Church. Panel: "What's Next for Life Sciences Research and IT? And How Do We Get There From Here?" 2:30 - 3:30 PM Boston, Bio-IT World Conference. Details.
• April 23, 2009. Keith Batchelder, M.D. (PGP-10). "Changes in the Healthcare Industry and Markets Caused by Molecular Medicine." The 2009 Personalized Medicine Conference. Baltimore, MD. Details.
• April 9. 2009 at 6:30pm: David Ewing Duncan. The Conference Center at Harvard Medical School. Open to the public. Details.
• April 3, 2009 1:00pm-4:00pm: Personal Genetics. Discussions about Technology, Inheritance, Medicine, and Society. George Church, Marcy MacDonald, Dana Waring, and Ting Wu. Armenise Theater, Harvard Medical School. More info.
• March 18, 2009. Panel discussion on personalized medicine. 6pm-7:30pm at the New Research Building, Harvard Medical School. Open to the public. More details.

 

2008 Events

• October 30, 2008: PersonalGenomes.org is qualified as a charitable organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
• October 21, 2008: Initial data release for the PGP-10.
• October 20, 2008: 2nd Annual Personal Genome Project Meeting, held at Harvard Medical School.
• April 15, 2008: Harvard Medical School Institutional Review Board (IRB) approves protocol to expand the PGP to 100,000 participants.

 

2007 Events

• July 18, 2007: 1st Annual Personal Genome Project Meeting at Harvard Medical School
• April 30, 2007: Updated white paper on informed consent protocols published by George Church, Jeantine Lunshof, and Daniel Vorhaus. [PDF]

 

2006 Events

• July 25, 2006: Harvard Medical School IRB grants permission to expand PGP to ten participants.
• February 22, 2006: Harvard Medical School IRB grants permission to expand PGP to three participants.

 

2005 Events

• August 31, 2005: Harvard Medical School IRB approves the Personal Genome Project protocol for one participant.

 

2004 Events

• September 16, 2004: First protocol describing the Personal Genome Project submitted to the Harvard Medical School IRB.

 

2003 Events

• June 01, 2003: Submitted NIH-NHGRI-CEGS Proposal; see ELSI Section