In 2001, human immunogenetics professor Dr. Gloria M. Dunston founded the National Human Genome Center at Howard University.

Dunston is the founder of Whole Genome Science Foundation, a non-profit to advance knowledge on the science, technology engineering and mathematics of the human genome.

She received a PhD in human genetics at the University of Michigan and while there discovered that the Xh and Pa 1 antigens are identical and that they could be isotypic markers.