Symposium on Personal Control of Genomic Data for Research on Sept. 26-27

Registration is now open for in-person attendance at the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Symposium on Personal Control of Genomic Data for Research. The event will be held Sept. 26-27, 2019, in the Masur Auditorium, Building 10, on the main NIH campus in Bethesda, Md. In-person attendees are invited to submit an abstract for a poster presentation during the symposium.

The symposium will host sessions on the following topics:

• Motivations for and perceptions of participants controlling their own data
• Facilitating personal control of sharing data: existing approaches and platforms
• Risks and benefits to participants and their communities
• Sharing data in healthcare settings – the role of individuals who wish to share their data

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