 So at this point I'm going to read the conflict of interest statement now This applies to the grants that you will be the applications rather that you will be reviewing in the closed session You must leave the meeting room when applications submitted by our by your own organization are being individually discussed in the case of state higher education or other systems with multiple campuses that are geographically separated own Organization is intended to mean the entire system Except where a previous determination has been made that the components are separate organizations for the purposes of determining conflict of interest You should avoid situations that could give rise to charges of conflict of interest whether real or apparent For example, you should not participate in the deliberations and actions on any application from or involving your spouse Child recent student recent teacher Professional collaborator with whom you've worked closely a close personal friend or a scientist with whom you've had long-standing scientific or personal differences the NHGRI staff will determine the appropriate action based on Recency frequency and strengths of such associations or interests either positive or negative and will instruct you accordingly in Council actions in which you vote on a block of applications without discussing any Individual one the so-called on block action for example Your vote will not apply to any application from any institution fulfilling the criteria noted above Please sign the conflict of interest and disposal of confidential materials forms, which are provided to you They'll be collected at the end of the meeting Okay, so we have one more piece of business. It's not on the agenda Won't take very long. Don't don't be frightened September is What I refer to as parole month at NIH because it marks the last meeting of a group of Council members that have served us for four years I think it's very good to have the new council members here because you get to see there is an actual end to your service Really does come to a closure sometime So I'm going to read some parting words and Eric's going to hand out Lovely parting gifts We're gonna do this alphabetically and fortunately ladies first Carol I have known Carol Bolt for almost 20 years served many times on peer review panels for me and the last four years here on the council and and One of the remarkable things about Carol's you can assign just about anything to her Informatics databases data science Mouse genetics model organisms trainings throw it at Carol and you'll get something thoughtful back from her I Don't think I know anybody who smiles as often as Carol does and if you can smile at a council meeting and a peer review Meeting it says volumes about the kind of grace and poise that you bring to those meetings So it's been a pleasure to work with you Carol and we look forward to continuing interactions with you Okay, next up is Dan road Dan your knowledge of medical genetics genomics Electronic health records it's been invaluable to the council and to the genetic medicine The evolution and and really expansion of genomic medicine research at this Institute One of the things I love about Dan is he's got a very Hard not to be honest and straightforward method of communication More than once I've heard Dan say something along the lines of oops. I forgot we were an open session But I I find that refreshing and Really appreciate that kind of straightforward candor. So thank you Dan and we'll see you at a workshop soon And Speaking of straightforward and candid Val Sheffield is next on the list Now is someone else I've known for a long long time I think you were on maybe the first committee that I peer review committee that I have organized back yes, indeed and lots of seps special emphasis panels and Somebody else who very willingly speaks his mind Dan is the sorry Val is the still stuck on Dan Val is the classic true physician scientist. I've met few people who care as much Passionately about the well-being of their patients and have this profound intellectual curiosity to try to get at the underlying molecular genetic events that underpin disease Val's always been the voice at the council table to remind us about the importance of investigator initiated research projects and We're in the business of studying genetic diseases But Val also reminds us about how important the first step in that process is of clinician based phenotyping So Val as I said before look forward to working with you again Okay, Jay Shenduri earlier today Jay discovered that this was his last council meeting You should have seen the glee I told him and actually hurt my feelings that that was his official response Jay is a real Renaissance man Renaissance scientists covers many many fields We've used him and relied on him for a lot of technology development and a lot of fields that are important to genomic sciences But you can also throw production sequencing at Jay Mendelian disease massively parallel functional analysis And again get something very thoughtful back from Jay So thank you very much for four years and see you again So this has really been a terrific group of people to work with And we say goodbye to the council venue But we know we'll see you again if nothing else at all the wonderful opportunities for a peer review that are now available Thank you all so I think you can gavel us closed on the open session We'll take about a 15 minute break and resume with the second closed session Thank you