Featured Studies

Research study #IRB002325 is testing a new virtual tool that helps people learn more about their health and family health history. The goal is to build knowledge, skills, and confidence in talking about health within families.

Genetic testing sometimes tells a person or family unexpected results. These genetic test results are unrelated to the initial reason why the testing was done. These kinds of results are called "secondary results" or "secondary findings." If you or a member of your family have been given a secondary result please consider partnering with us on this research.

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center seek adults with or without gum disease (periodontal disease) to join a research study. Doctors want to learn how a person's immune system affects the health of the mouth. Compensation will be offered.

The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research at the NIH Clinical Center is looking for volunteers who need to have their wisdom teeth removed. Researchers will evaluate people who need to have their wisdom teeth removed. The removed wisdom teeth will be studied and used for further research.

Do you... Find yourself constantly checking things? Spend lots of time ordering your belongings? Have unusual rituals or habits that seem unnecessary? Do you blurt out comments at inappropriate times, interrupt conversations or speak out of turn or feel you are overly impulsive? The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) is conducting an outpatient research study on the links between compulsivity, impulsivity and the developing brain in children and young adults.

Researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) are seeking healthy children between 2-17 years old to participate in a research study to better understand the immune system of patients with mitochondrial disease in comparison to their healthy peers.