Committees

The Executive Committee (EC) is a leadership group comprising current Steering Committee co-chairs, PIs of the Sequencing Center and Coordinating Center, and NHGRI Project Scientists. A key function of this leadership committee is to organize and track agendas, discussion items, action items, and votes for the Steering Committee, which is the governing body of the Network.

The Steering Committee (SC) is the main governing body of the Network. It comprises Principal Investigators (PIs) and Project Managers of the Clinical Groups, Sequencing Center, and the CC, and the NHGRI Project Scientists. Additional Network members (e.g., Co-Investigators) are included in the standing SC roster and/or select meeting invites based on expertise and needs of Clinical Groups and Centers to inform their SC deliberations and votes. The SC has primary responsibility for the general organization of the Network, finalizing protocols, facilitating the conduct and monitoring of the combined protocol, reporting results in a timely manner, and disseminating the findings. All major scientific decisions are determined by majority vote of the SC.