As you know back in 2016, and after the death of Dick Cotton, we moved the HVP office from Melbourne and formed a UK charity under the name Global Variome. For the last 18 months we have been in talks with HUGO over a potential merger between HVP, HUGO and HGVS. I am pleased to tell you that we are in the final stages and are planning to pilot the new merged organisation over the next year.  

As a member of HVP, this merger should cause little disruption to the great work you are doing.

With this new merger, we plan to combine our HVP committees; for those interested in maintaining their membership with the Human Variome Project, we hope that you will join this new group. Our goal is the same; to maintain an international network of individuals and industry to ensure that all genetic variation information can be collected, curated, interpreted and shared for the benefit of human health. 

We will operate under the collective membership of HUGO. Members will be invited to associate with HVP and/or HGVS, each of which will have dedicated committees within the structure and have seats on the executive board. We will have a dedicated section in the Human Genome Meeting.  The Global Variome will retain its separate identity as an associate NGO of UNESCO and will facilitate educational activities there.  

We will share further details as they become available.  If you have questions please contact us via email to amy@variome.org