That was the general consensus that emerged from the final meeting of the Toxicogenomics Research Consortium (TRC), a multicenter collaborative initiative established by the NIEHS in 2001 to serve as an extramural arm of the institute's National Center for Toxicogenomics (NCT).
Funding News The National Institute of Environmental Health Science Toxicogenomics Research Consortium The National Institute of Environmental Health Science (NIEHS) has issued a Request for Application (RFA) to develop a national Toxicogenomics Research Consortium (TRC).
Bondaryk continued, "We are pleased to participate in the community-wide 'standardization' initiatives to advance the use of microarray data for research and regulatory submissions, including the current FDA-initiated project and other ongoing efforts with the NIEHS Toxicogenomics Research Consortium.
Closing Remarks: The Olden Years In the span of 4 years (1999-2003), NIEHS created a National Center for Toxicogenomics (NCT), released a request for applications for and coordinated the creation of the Toxicogenomics Research Consortium, expanded its extramural portfolio with supplemental grants to support toxicogenomics experiments, and launched the Toxicogenomics section of EHP.
The Toxicogenomics Research Consortium (TRC) was initiated by the NIEHS to integrate genomics approaches into the field of toxicology through the cooperative efforts of research institutions from academia, government, and industry.
Recognizing that cross-communication and cooperation among different research labs is essential to realizing the potential of genomic science for toxicology, the NIEHS earmarked $37 million to establish the Toxicogenomics Research Consortium (TRC) in November 2001.
Through this center, NIEHS researchers and their partners at various government and academic institutions in the Toxicogenomics Research Consortium are surveying the human genome for alterations in gene expression patterns of several thousands of genes using DNA microarray technology.
