The Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain (CEPH) was established in 1984 by Jean Dausset, Nobel Prize for Medecine in 1980, to promote an international collaborative research effort to map the human genome, the first step in developing individualized genomic medicine.
This successful model of international collaboration has been used to organize the "Human Genome Diversity Panel – CEPH, a program used to study genetic diversity in humans.
Today the Fondation Jean Dausset-CEPH is engaged in a variety of programs dealing with human translational genomics.
