[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 177 (Thursday, September 12, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56238-56239]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-22174]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health; Notice of 
Meeting

    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.
    The meeting will be open to the public. Individuals who plan to 
attend and need special assistance, such as sign language 
interpretation or other reasonable accommodations, should notify the 
Contact Person listed below in advance of the meeting.

    Name of Committee: Advisory Committee to the Director, National 
Institutes of Health.
    Date: September 16, 2013.
    Time: 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
    Agenda: The Advisory Committee to the Director, NIH (ACD) is 
holding a public conference to discuss the findings of two of its 
working groups: the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative 
Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) working group and the HeLa Genome Data 
Access working group. The BRAIN working group presentation and 
discussion will focus on the working group's interim report which 
identifies high priority areas for funding in Fiscal Year 2014.The 
HeLa Genome Data Access working group presentation will include an 
overview of the working group's scope and a summary of its review of 
requests for accessing genome sequence data from HeLa cell lines. 
Materials related to this meeting will be posted when available on 
the ACD Web site (http://acd.od.nih.gov).
    To sign up for the public comment, please submit you name and 
affiliation to the Contact Person listed by 11:00 a.m. ET on 
September 16, 2013. Sign up will be restricted to one sign up per 
email. In the event that time does not allow for all those 
interested to present or a comments, anyone may file written 
comments with the committee through the Contact Person listed below. 
The statement should include the name, address, telephone number, 
and when applicable, the business or professional affiliation of the 
interested person. The toll free number to participate in the 
teleconference is 800-779-1423. Indicate to the conference operator 
that your participant pass code is ``ACD.''
    Place: (Telephone conference call), National Institutes of 
Health, One Center Drive, Building 1, Room 116, Bethesda, Maryland 
20892.

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    Contact Person: Gretchen Wood, Staff Assistant, National 
Institutes of Health, Immediate Office of the Director, One Center 
Drive, Building 1, Room 126, Bethesda, MD 20892, Telephone: 301-496-
4272, [email protected].
    This notice is being published less than 15 days prior to the 
meeting due to conflicts in finalizing the agenda and scheduling 
events.
    Information is also available on the Institute's/Center's home 
page: http://acd.od.nih.gov, where an agenda and any additional 
information for the meeting will be posted when available.

    Dated: September 6, 2013.
Anna Snouffer,
 Deputy Director, Office of Federal Advisory Committee Policy.
[FR Doc. 2013-22174 Filed 9-11-13; 8:45 am]
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