News & Events

Scientific Meetings

• Medicines, Genes, and Variability: A Symposium on Pharmacogenetics -- March 3, 2005 
  Media tip sheet
  
  
• Pharmacogenetics Research Network and Knowledge Base
  Fourth Scientific Meeting -- March 8, 2004 
  • Meeting report (requires free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view online)
    Reproduced by permission of Nature Publishing Group, from The Pharmacogenomics Journal.
     
• Pharmacogenetics Research Network and Knowledge Base
  Third Scientific Meeting -- March 3, 2003
  • Meeting report (requires free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view online)
    Reproduced by permission of Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins, from their journal Pharmacogenetics.
     
• Pharmacogenetics Research Network and Knowledge Base
  Second Scientific Meeting -- March 12, 2002
  • Meeting report
    Reproduced by permission of Nature Publishing Group, from The Pharmacogenomics Journal.
     
• Pharmacogenetics Research Network and Knowledge Base
  First Scientific Meeting -- April 25, 2001
  • Meeting highlights (requires free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view online)
    Reproduced by permission of Ashley Publications, from their journal Pharmacogenomics.

News Releases and Announcements

• Genes, Drugs and Breast Cancer Basis of $12 Million Pharmacogenetics Study
  AScribe news release, September 28, 2005
   
• NIH Renews Network Focused On How Genes Influence Drug Responses
  NIGMS news release, September 28, 2005
   
• Five-Year Perspective on the Pharmacogenetics Research Network
  NIGMS announcement, April 2000 to August 2005
   
• $10 Million Grant Enables Research on Gene-Guided Chemotherapy
  Washington University news release, August 29, 2005
   
• UF Researcher Gets $11 Million To Study Genes, Blood Pressure Drugs
  University of Florida news release, August 18, 2005
   
• Mayo Clinic Receives $12.6 Million from NIH to Research Pharmacogenomics
  Mayo Clinic news release, July 26, 2005
   
• $15 Million Grant Extends Study of How Genes Affect Cancer Chemotherapy
  University of Chicago Medical Center news release, July 13, 2005
   
• Pharmacogenetics Research Network Chooses Journal to Publish PharmGKB Data
  NIGMS announcement, November 9, 2001
   
• NIH Pharmacogenetics Network Announces New Members
  NIGMS announcement, September 4, 2001
   
• Pharmacogenetics Research Network Seeks Journal Partnership
  NIGMS announcement, June 1, 2001
   
• NIH to Study How Genes Affect Response to Medicines
  The NIH Record, August 8, 2000
   

• First Awards Made in NIH Effort to Understand How Genes Affect People's Responses to Medicines
  NIGMS news release, April 4, 2000