The project was first proposed in 1984, by Dr. R. Sinsheimer of University of California, Santa Cruz. In 1989, the Human Genome Project started in America with a 1 billion dollar budget, led by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Energy (DOE). In 1990, the project started formally as an international project.
The Human Genome Project-Time Line of major events
| 1984 | Dr. R. Sinsheimer, president of University of California, Santa Cruz, propose the idea of the Human Genome Project |
| 1985 | the first meeting about the Human Genome Project held by Dr. Sinshemier |
| 1988 | HUGO (the Human Genome Organization) is founded by scientists for an international cooperation to the project |
| 1990 | the Human Genome Project formally begins with a 15 year goal |
| 1994 | genetic mapping finished, an year earlier than presumed |
| 1995 | maps of chromosomes 3, 11, 12, 16, 19, 22 completed first sequencing of a whole genome of a nonvial organism completed (for the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae) |
| 1997 | maps of chormosomes X and 7 completed |
| 1998 | goals of the project revised to 2003 |
| 2000 | predicted completion of a rough reading of the human genome |
| 2003 | predicted completion of the Human Genome Project |