As an associate director of the Division of Extramural Research of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Jane Peterson plays an important role in the administration of NHGRI extramural activities. Dr. Peterson directs NHGRI's large-scale sequencing program, the aim of which is to support medical sequencing to understand human disease, improve our understanding of the human genome and genome biology through comparisons of genome sequences from multiple organisms. She initiated and led the NIH Roadmap Human Microbiome Project until 2009. She also works on The Cancer Genome Atlas project and The Knockout Mouse Project.
Dr. Peterson is recognized as a dedicated leader of the Human Genome Project, on which she has served in the capacity of Program Director for mapping/sequencing since the project's inception. Dr. Peterson came to NHGRI in 1989 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, where she served as a Program Director for the Genetics Program. Having served as Program Director for large-scale sequencing at NHGRI since 1995, she administers and evaluates cooperative agreements with large-scale DNA sequencing centers.
Dr. Peterson won the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary's Award in 2001 for her contributions to the Human Genome Project and again in 2005 for her involvement in The International HapMap Project. She has also received the NIH Directors award, most recently for her work on the Human Microbiome Project. She has been recognized by the National Cancer Institute for her work on TCGA and the NHGRI for her work on large-scale sequencing projects. She received her B.A. from Western College in Oxford, Ohio and her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado's Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology.
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