# Human and Mammalian Genetics and Genomics: the McKusick Short Course

> **NIH NIH R25** · JACKSON LABORATORY · 2021 · $151,318

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
Human and Mammalian Genetics and Genomics: the McKusick Short Course, developed through a six-
decade long partnership between Johns Hopkins University and The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), trains the
next generation of basic research and medical genetics professionals. The McKusick Short Course is
purposefully an intense, two-week program that covers human and mouse genetic and genomics processes
and the mechanisms of human disease. The course offers ~45 lectures, 10 workshops and eight evening
lectures over a 12-day period, uniquely providing medical genetics, mouse genetics, and ethical, legal and
social implications of genomics content training. The content delivered by the short course would normally be
covered by one or many more graduate-level, semester-long university courses. With graduate students,
postdoctoral fellows and faculty from U.S. universities being the dominant audience, the course attracts ~115
trainees each year. JAX leverages valuable scholarship funds from the NIH, the March of Dimes, and a HHMI
Advanced Courses grant to allow accepted underrepresented minority (URM) trainees to attend the course
without any registration or housing fee. Moreover JAX is committed to expanding the participation of URM
participants and faculty beyond the sixteen percent who have participated in the last four years. Both faculty
and trainee participants make important connections at the course, leading to postdoctoral fellowships,
research collaborations, and creation of important academic networks. Going forward the course also will have
a larger impact through webcasting of lectures and seminars. The overall goal of the McKusick Short Course is
to train young scientists in medical and experimental genetics and genomics such that participants can
become the next generation of biomedical research leaders and clinician scientists.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10135699
- **Project number:** 5R25HD079344-08
- **Recipient organization:** JACKSON LABORATORY
- **Principal Investigator:** GREGORY A. COX
- **Activity code:** R25 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $151,318
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2014-04-14 → 2024-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10135699

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10135699, Human and Mammalian Genetics and Genomics: the McKusick Short Course (5R25HD079344-08). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10135699. Licensed CC0.

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