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Advancing the Use of Genomic Information Into Clinical Care
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Topic Description
Post Date: September 10, 2025
Expiration Date: August 29, 2026
This topic seeks to promote research that improves health by generating genomic evidence and/or implementing genomic findings into healthcare. Despite substantial evidence showing genomic variants increase risk for numerous diseases, evidence is limited that using genomic results improves short and long-term outcomes. This topic addresses this gap by encouraging studies on the impact of genomic information on clinical outcomes while also encouraging research on the most effective methods for implementation of evidence-based genomic medicine interventions into healthcare.
Exemplary topics include:
1. Generating Genomic Medicine Evidence:
- Pilot Studies: Testing whether use of genomic information improves short-term clinical outcomes or cost-effectiveness, with potential for follow-up to assess long-term impact and real-world application.
- Outcome Metrics: Developing metrics to evaluate clinical utility, including patient outcomes and cost-effectiveness.
- Generalizability: Ensuring findings apply across populations and settings.
2. Integrating Genomic Evidence into Clinical Care:
- Implementation Research: Investigating facilitators and barriers to implementing genomic medicine across a wide range of clinical settings.
- Frameworks for Study: Identifying, assessing, and applying implementation science frameworks to the study of genomic medicine.
- Integration Strategies: Developing and researching strategies to integrate genomic evidence into clinical workflows in ways that optimize health outcomes.
- Preventive Strategies: Researching preventive strategies to the management of patients with genomic risk while optimizing access, risk, cost, and convenience.
3. Developing and/or expanding resources relevant to genomic medicine:
- Clinical resources: defining relevance of genes and variants, developing, implementing, and maintaining genomic-based clinical tools and services for use in genomic medicine.
- Translational resources: advancing the creation of repositories of curated multi-omic genetic data to facilitate the investigation of genetic influences on traits, diseases and treatments, enabling better disease prediction, prevention, and therapy strategies.
In summary, this topic promotes innovative research that advances the implementation of genomic information in clinical care, ensuring its benefits are broadly accessible and effectively integrated into routine healthcare.
Participating ICOs
NHGRI is interested in all of the exemplary topics above.
ICO Scientific Contact:Simona Volpi
[email protected]
NIAID is interested in supporting projects that focus on research that advance the use of genomic evidence (human, microbiome, and/or pathogen) to improve clinical diagnosis, care and resolution of infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS; immunologic and allergic diseases, or organ transplantation; and other areas arising that are relevant to NIAID's scientific mission.
ICO Scientific Contact:Inka Sastalla
[email protected]
NIDA is interested in studies defining the relevance of genes and gene variants, developing and implementing and maintaining genomic based tools for substance use and addiction.
ICO Scientific Contact:Jonathan Pollock
[email protected]
The NINR leverages a person-centered holistic nursing perspective to support rigorous solution-oriented research conducted by scientists from any discipline. NINR leads discoveries of innovative systems and models of care, breakthroughs in disease prevention and health promotion, and advances in population and community health. Our research empowers individuals, families, communities, and populations to optimize their health and well-being. NINR supports research that addresses health differences, intervenes on the conditions in which people live, uses multilevel approaches to prevent disease and promote health, and implements clinical and organizational solutions to maximize positive outcomes of care delivery.
ICO Scientific Contact:Mary Elizabeth Bowen, PhD
[email protected]
The areas of interest of the Office of Autoimmune Disease Research in the Office of Research on Women’s Health (OADR-ORWH) include:
- Develop and use genomic data resources for multilevel approaches to diagnose, prevent, and treat chronic conditions in women.
- Translate genetic research advancements in women's health across the life course.
- Accelerating scientific discovery, developing data science and computational tools to integrate the interactions of genetics with environmental factors for diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and cures, and enhancing health for people with autoimmune disease.
This office does not award grants. Applications must be relevant to the objectives of at least one of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers listed in this topic.
Elena Gorodetsky, M.D., Ph.D.
[email protected]
Victoria Shanmugam, MBBS, MRCP, FACR, CCD
[email protected]
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