2011 01 December Yoshiyuki Sakaki interview

Yoshiyuki Sakaki, telephone interview by Kathryn Maxson and Robert Cook-Deegan, conducted from Durham, NC, 1 December 2011. From 1995-1998, Yoshiyuki Sakaki, formerly of the University of Tokyo, was a leader on the four-team Japanese Human Genome Sequencing Project funded by the Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST) of the Science and Technology Agency (STA). In 1998, this effort was relocated to RIKEN, the most prestigious research institution in Japan, and consolidated under the sole leadership of Sakaki until the completion of the HGP. This transcript is available beginning 1 July 2014. It includes follow-up questions completed via email. Keywords: Human Genome Project, HGP, interview, Bermuda Principles, Bermuda Accord, International Strategy Meetings on Human Genome Sequencing, data sharing, science policy, genomics, genome, genome sequence, genetics, DNA sequence, DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid, NIH, National Institutes of Health, DOE, Department of Energy, Japan, Science and Technology Agency, STA, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, JST, Yoshiyuki SakakiThis research was supported by the NHGRI-funded Duke Center for Public Genomics, P50 HG 003391, with supplementary funding from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation