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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 …
Event
On October 25-29, 2022, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) will participate in the ASHG Annual Meeting - the world's largest human genetics and genomics meeting and exposition.
… 3:00 p.m. — 4:45 p.m. Statistical Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology Local Ancestry at the MHC region id asscociated … 3:00 p.m. — 4:45 p.m. Statistical Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology Developing an African American population-based … with European Ancestry and Implications for Genetic Epidemiology Board No. PB3593 Mateus Gouveia Convention …
Research at NHGRI
CRGGH develops a comprehensive staff and training program that uses genomic approaches to study human health and to reduce/eliminate health disparities.
… goals, Dr. Rotimi's lab has established major genetic epidemiology research projects in multiple ethnic groups in … He obtained a second Master's degree and a Doctorate in Epidemiology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham … DC. Rotimi is concerned to involve Africans in genetic epidemiology, both as participants and researchers. "There is …
News Release
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 …
Careers and Training
The Health Disparities Unit (HDU) in the Social and Behavioral Research Branch (SBRB) of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow interested in the study of the intersection of genomics, social determinants of health and health inequities.
… or closely related field (e.g., anthropology, bioethics, epidemiology, genetics and genomics, health education, law, …
News Release
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 …
The Genomics Landscape
In the November 3, 2022 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., reflects on the important genomics legacy of the Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) program as it comes to an end.