List of events in NHGRI history

Important events in the history of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health. == 1988 == February 29 – March 1, 1988 – National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director James Wyngaarden assembles scientists, administrators and science policy experts in Reston, Va., to lay out a plan for the Human Genome Project (HGP).