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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 …
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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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NHGRI appointed Carolyn Hutter, Ph.D., director of the Division of Genome Sciences, which researches human genome function in health and disease.
… in 2012 and, with experience in laboratory-based research, epidemiology and extramural program management, she knows all … at the University of Washington to complete a Ph.D. in epidemiology and a master' degree s in biostatistics. After … of Health, and managed a research portfolio focused on epidemiology and genome sequencing, which included grants in …
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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 …
The Genomics Landscape
In the February 2018 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights the new director of NHGRI's Division of Genome Sciences.
… in early 2017. Dr. Hutter's background in genetics and epidemiology, in conjunction with her experience in managing … from the University of Washington, and her Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Washington. Carolyn … a program director in the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program. As the team lead …
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NHGRI researcher Dr. Julie Segre has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.
… the integration of genomic methodologies into hospital epidemiology to investigate healthcare-associated outbreaks …
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Researchers identified 13 gene regions that influence cholesterol levels, some of which affected people differently if they are smokers or former smokers.
… of the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) , which facilitates genome-wide …
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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 …