The External Scientific Panel (ESP) is a non-governing entity comprising a multidisciplinary panel of experts who will assist the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in assessing, on a regular basis, the PRIMED Consortium’s:
- scientific and programmatic progress;
- datasets, analysis tools, and other resources for potential users;
- management of ethics concerns and participant protection practices; and
- ability to develop and evaluate methods to improve the use of polygenic risk scores to predict disease and health outcomes in diverse ancestry populations.
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Luisa N. Borrell, DDS, PhD - City University of New York Shawneequa Callier, JD, MA - George Washington University Dana Crawford, PhD - Case Western Reserve University Allison Heath, PhD - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Rick Kittles, PhD - Morehouse School of Medicine Kiran Musunuru, MD, PhD, MPH, ML - University of Pennsylvania |