Human Genome Coordinating Committee 



Another component of the DOE management structure is the Human Genome 

 Coordinating Committee (HGCC), which was chartered by HERAC. The committee, 

 originally named the Human Genome Steering Committee, was formed in October 

 1988. The HGCC membership comprises and represents DOE genome program 

 research participants. Members of the Human Genome Program Management Task 

 Group (ex-officio members of the HGCC) and observers from other government and 

 private agencies participate in the regularly scheduled meetings of the HGCC. whose 

 responsibilities include: 



• assisting OHER with the overall coordination of DOE-funded genome research, 



• facilitating the development and dissemination of novel genome technologies. 



• ensuring proper management of data and samples. 



• interacting with other national and 

 international efforts. 



' communicating the program to the 

 press and public, and 



' establishing task groups to 

 analyze specific issues such as 

 ethics, informatics, resource 

 sharing, cost of resource 

 distribution, and use of 

 chromosome-tlow-sorting 

 facilities. 



Human Genome Coordinating Committee 



Chairman: Charles R. Cantor, Director, Human Genome 

 Center, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 



Anthony V. Carrano, Director, Human Genome Project, 

 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 



C. Thomas Caskey, Director, Institute for Molecular 

 Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine 



Leroy E. Hood, Director, Center for Integrated Protein and 

 Nucleic Acid Chemistry and Biological Computation, and 

 Director, Cancer Center, California Institute of 

 Technology 



Robert K. Moyzis, Director, Center for Human Genome 

 Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory 



HGCC Executive Officer: Sylvia J. Spengler, Lawrence 

 Berkeley Laboratory 



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