Pursuant to section 10(a) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App.), notice is hereby given of a meeting of the Advisory Committee to the Director, National Institutes of Health (ACD).
The meeting is virtual and open to the public. The HeLa Genome Data Access working group will present a summary of its assessment of requests to access HeLa cell genome sequence data in the NIH database of Genotype and Phenotype (dbGaP). The HeLa Genome Data Access working group report, as well as instructions for joining the virtual meeting, will be posted when available on the ACD Web site (
Any interested person may file written comments with the committee by forwarding the statement to the Contact Person listed on this notice. The statement should include the name, address, telephone number and when applicable, the business or professional affiliation of the interested person and must be sent by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on March 25, 2014. Statements will be posted on the ACD Web site and made accessible during this virtual meeting.