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Spanning Disciplines, Advancing Knowledge Promoting Awareness, Progress, and Applications of the Human Genome Project |
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Human
Genome News Archive Edition |
Human Genome News, September-December 1995; 7(3-4):2
David Smith is a founder and current Director of the DOE Human Genome Program. In September, at the seventh annual Genome Sequencing and Analysis meeting in Hilton Head, South Carolina, Smith reflected on principles guiding the establishment and management of the genome project and proffered some insights into where it all may lead. Along the way, he answered one of the questions asked most frequently of DOE genome program staffers: Why is DOE involved in the genome project?
Smith became intrigued by DNA studies in the mid-1950s at a small college in Nebraska where, as he explains it, "An embryology teacher opened my eyes to the significance of DNA, and from there, my main scientific motivation was almost philosophical."
After doctoral studies in biochemistry at the University of Southern California, Smith began his DOE career with an appointment at Los Alamos National Laboratory. In 1977 he began managing the molecular biology programs at the Energy Research and Development Administration, a forerunner of DOE, in Germantown, Maryland. Here Smith's ideas about the importance of understanding DNA eventually took shape and became a rationale guiding DOE toward implementation of what has become the largest project to be carried out in biology.
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