work

Galleries and Reading Room

Library

Shop

Café

All of Wellcome Collection, including our library, café and shop, will be closed on Monday 4 November for staff training. We will open again as usual on Tuesday 5 November.

We’re undertaking some research with website visitors to learn more about how people find access-related information provided by museums. This survey shouldn't take longer than 10 minutes to complete. Thank you for your time!

Help us organize our website content.

<p>This digitised material is free to access, but contains information or visuals that may:</p><ul><li>include personal details of living individuals</li><li>be upsetting or distressing</li><li>be explicit or graphic</li><li>include objects and images of objects decontextualised in a way that is offensive to the originating culture.</li></ul>By viewing this material, we ask that you use the content lawfully, ethically and responsibly under the conditions set out in our <a href="https://wellcomecollection.cdn.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/d4817da5-c71a-4151-81c4-83e39ad4f5b3_Wellcome+Collection_Access+Policy_Aug+2020.pdf">Access Policy</a>.

You must accept the terms to view the content.

Genetic Code as of 1965

Personal Papers

Human Genome Project

General Files

National Research Council Committee on Mapping and Sequencing the Human Genome - Correspondence, Meeting Minutes, Clippings

Human Sequencing

Victor McCusick Correspondence (HUGO)

Mapping Our Genes - Federal Human Genome Projects: How Vast? How Fast? Transcript of Workshop "Costs of Human Genome Projects" (7 August 1987)

Essays: • The Human Genome Project: What Impact on Basic Research? by Roger S. Johnson (Dec 1987). • Some Implications of Human Gene Therapy, by Janet Rice (18 Apr 1987).

National Research Council Committee on Mapping and Sequencing the Human Genome - Correspondence and Reports (1 of 2)

National Research Council Committee on Mapping and Sequencing the Human Genome - Correspondence and Reports (2 of 2)

National Research Council Committee on Mapping and Sequencing the Human Genome - Correspondence, Meeting Minutes, Reports

Human Genome Project - Correspondence, Meeting Information, Reports

Correspondence - General: • Handwritten letter from Alexander C. Tomlinson to JD Watson, with typed response (photocopy). (13 Dec 1988). • Correspondence with Clyde S. White.

AAAS Symposium, San Francisco: The Human Genome Project: Progress and Prospects (14-19 January 1988)

Announcement - JDW as Associate Director of the HGP

Press Releases

HGM9.5, New Haven, CT (28-31 August 1988)

The Human Genome Projects: Issues, Goals, and California’s Participation, University of California (2 December 1988)

Commission of the European Communities - Proposal for a Council Decision Adopting a Specific Research Program in the Field of Health: Predictive Medicine: Human Genome Analysis (1989-1991)

Correspondence with Joel Davis, writer

Alliance for Aging Research Conference, Unlocking Potential: The Promise of the Human Genome Project (23-25 April 1989)

Correspondence - General: • Edwin C. Whitehead, re dinner for the Friends of the National Library of Medicine (26 Apr 1989). • NLM, inviting JD Watson to participate in discussions (12 Oct 1989). • Copy of invitation to dinner. • Comments from a press conference regarding HUGO. • Correspondence from Mitsuhiro Yanagida, Kyoto University (9 Feb 1989).

Program Advisory Committee on the Human Genome, NIH (3-4 January 1989)

American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting - The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Human Genome Project (14-19 January 1989)

Dr. Crow’s Summary Recommendations of the Genetic Mapping Workshop

STEPP - Sequencing the Human Genome: Biology Meets Big Science (7 March 1989)

Report on a Workshop for Scientists Involved in Mapping Human Chromosome 11 (22-23 March 1989)

Department of Energy Correspondence

The Human Gene Map, by Victor A. McKusick

Nomenclature for Physical Mapping (12-14 April 1989)

HGSE Meeting, Bethesda, MD (18 April 1989)

Tenth International Workshop on Human Gene Mapping (HGM-10 Meeting) (11-17 June 1989)

Human Genome Planning Retreat, Banbury Center, CSHL (28-30 August 1989)

HUGO Announcements

HUGO Minutes

Second Meeting - Program Advisory Committee on the Human Genome, NIH (19-20 June 1989)

Wolf Trap Genome Sequencing Conference (24-26 October 1989)

The Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space Testimonies - 11/9/89 - Watson transcript and handwritten notes

JDW Talk: "The Human Genome Project is Finally Under Way" - Center for Human Genome Research, NIH (28 November 1989)

National Center for Human Genome Research - Correspondence, Reports, Meeting Information (1 of 3)

National Center for Human Genome Research - Correspondence, Reports, Meeting Information (2 of 3)

National Center for Human Genome Research - Correspondence, Reports, Meeting Information (3 of 3)

National Center for Human Genome Research - Correspondence, Reports, Meeting Information, Clippings (1 of 3)

National Center for Human Genome Research - Correspondence, Reports, Meeting Information, Clippings (2 of 3)

National Center for Human Genome Research - Correspondence, Reports, Meeting Information, Clippings (3 of 3)

NCHGR Staff Lists

Programs - Lectures, Seminars, etc.

Correspondence – General: • The Howard Hughes Medical Institute Awards $1 Million Grant to the Human Genome Organization (3 May 1990). • Fax: Letter from Walter Bodmer, HUGO, to Dr. Federico Mayor, UNESCO. • News Conference re Human Genome Privacy Act (11 Sep 1990). • Several turn-down response letters to groups/institutions inviting JD Watson to participate in an event. • American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Carol Leach, re “The Human Genome Initiative” (23 Jul 1990).

Public Relations

Correspondence - British Association for the Advancement of Science

Human Genome Project Progress Correspondence

Carolina Biological Supply Interview Correspondence

Watson speaks at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Entwicklungsbiologie, Tubingen (February 1990) - Article that appeared in the German newspaper, Schwabisches, regarding his speech.

The Director, The Laboratory, and the Genome Project: An Interview with JDW, by Lee R. Hiltzik

International Biotechnology Association Meeting (22 February 1990)

Manuscript: "The Human Genome Project: Past, Present, and Future"

Correspondence - Letters to House of Representatives in Support of Funding the HGP

Second Genome Sequencing Conference (30 September - 8 October 1990)

Knight Center Fellows Meeting (30 September - 12 October 1990)

Human Genome II (22-24 October 1990)

Manuscripts: "Human Genome Initiative"  - AAAS

II Workshop on International Cooperation for the Human Genome Project: Ethics, Valencia, Spain (12-14 November 1990)

Airlie House Meeting (NIH-DOE), Bethesda, MD (4-5 December 1990)

The Bard Center Evenings - The Human Genome Project: Scientific and Ethical Dimensions of New Technologies (5 December 1990)

Calendar of Events - HGP - December 1990 Version

NIH Financial Disclosure Reports

NCHGR Annual Report

Correspondence - NIH

Correspondence - Grisolia, Santiago

NCHGR - Itineraties

Correspondence - Domestic Universities

Manuscript: "The Human Genome Project"

Correspondence - General (Includes Bob Dole and Norton Zinder)

Human Genome Research and the Responsible Use of New Genetic Knowledge by Eric T. Juengst and JDW

Taint of Blood (5 March 1991) (Kay Jamison)

The New York Academy of Medicine - The Human Genome Project: An Agenda for Science and Society (1 April 1991) (Cancelled)

UK Human Genome Program Users Meetings, Royal College of Physicians, London (19 April 1991)

Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation Lecture, Munich, Germany (22 April 1991)

Human Genome Project: A Vision of the Future

American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans - "The Evolution of DNA: From Double Helix to the Human Genome Project" (11-16 May 1991)

NIH Conference on International Aspectsof Ethical and Social Issues in Human Genome Research, Bethesda, MA (2-4 June 1991)

Correspondence - General

Annas/Elias Volume Forward Draft: "Doing Science in the Real World: The Role of Ethics, Law and the Social Sciences in the Human Genome Project" by JDW and Eric T. Juengst

First Annual Center Director's Meeting (20 June 1991)

NCHGR Workshop (18 July 1991) (Includes Senator Pete Domenici correspondence)

Genome Sequencing Conference III, Hilton Head, SC (22-25 September 1991)

AAAS Meeting - "Technology Transfer and Genome-Related Research" by Reid G. Adler (22 October 1991)

Research on the Human Genome in Europe and its Relationship to Activities Elsewhere in the World

Human Genome News Mailing List Database

Correspondence - Human Genome Project Progress

NCHGR - Expenses

Program Advisory Committee on the Human Genome, Beckman Center, Irvine, CA (3-4 January 1992)

DOE Human Genetics and Genome Analysis Meeting, Banbury Center, CSHL (23-26 February 1992)

Statement of James D. Watson - Resignation from NIH and Genome Project

Watson Resignation Correspondence

Reactions to the Resignation of JDW from the Genome Project

Genome Mapping and Sequencing, CSHL (6-10 May 1992)

Finances - HGP Center Grants Meeting (10 May 1992)

US-Russia Genome Meeting, St. Petersburg (26-30 July 1992)

Human Genome Project Lecture, Stellenbosch University (10 February 1993)

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center - Roundtable: The Human Genome Project (6 May 1993)

Genetic Code as of 1965

Collection contents

Available online

Access conditions

About this work

Publication/Creation

Physical description

Copyright note

Location of duplicates

Terms of use

Where to find it

Location of original

Permanent link