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Charles Rotimi, Ph.D., was awarded the Academy Medal for Distinguished Contributions in Biomedical Science by the New York Academy of Medicine. This honor, established in 1929, recognizes investigators with sustained and impactful accomplishments in biomedical research and an interest in translating these findings to advance human health.
… honors NHGRI Scientific Director for advances in genetic epidemiology and efforts to enhance the diversity of the …
The Genomics Landscape
In the March 3, 2022 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., highlights the new fact sheets produced by the institute's Communications and Public Liaison Branch.
… Consortium, Population Architecture Using Genomics and Epidemiology Consortium, and the Telomere-to-Telomere …
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NHGRI researchers will present four platform talks and 55 posters to highlight the institute's diverse portfolio at the 65th annual meeting of ASHG.
… then moderate the presidential symposium titled, Genetic Epidemiology at Scale: High Throughput Genomics Linked to … with replication data. (Statistical Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology) 1425W. Emily Holzinger: A variable selection … with human traits. (Statistical Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology) 1693W. Barbara N. Pusey: SNP-Chip Sibling …
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As director, Erin Ramos will lead the institute’s extramural programs in basic genomics research.
… health. Blending her passion for genetics and epidemiology, Dr. Ramos earned a M.P.H. and Ph.D. in public … While a graduate student, she studied the genetic epidemiology of Alzheimer’s disease and simultaneously worked …
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NIH will hold a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" with members of its NHGRI Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Research Program.
… fields - bioethics, law, behavioral and social sciences, epidemiology, public health, public policy, genomics and …
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NHGRI has selected Charles Rotimi, Ph.D., as the next scientific director. In this role, he will lead the institute’s Intramural Research Program, which conducts basic and clinical research to enable a greater understanding of human disease and to develop better methods to detect, prevent and treat genetic disorders.
… from the University of Mississippi, Oxford; and a Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. …
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Research studies are now using polygenic risk scores to determine a person’s inherited risk for certain diseases, but there are inconsistencies in how these scores are calculated. NHGRI has published guidelines in Nature for how these scores should be reported.
… Genevieve Wojcik, Ph.D., M.H.S., an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public …
The Genomics Landscape
In the May 5, 2022 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., pays tribute to one of NHGRI’s founding staff members and current leaders, Bettie Graham, Ph.D., as she reached a truly remarkable milestone: 50 years of service in the federal government.
… earned her doctorate from the Department of Virology and Epidemiology in 1971. Bettie was the first person of color to …
The Genomics Landscape
In the December 2024 issue of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights the keynote speaker at the institute's annual symposium, Kate Rubins, a biologist and NASA astronaut who was the first person to sequence DNA in space.
… Program , where she and her lab study the genetics and epidemiology of autoimmune diseases. Congratulations to all …
The Genomics Landscape
In May 4, 2023 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., details a report released by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, that provided a series of recommendations for using population descriptors in future genetics and genomics studies.
… factors and exposures by working with experts in epidemiology, environmental sciences, and other relevant …