Career Interviews

Gautam Pandey, PhD is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Genetics at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Inside HGG Advances: A Chat with Gautam Pandey

Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project? GP: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is a silent epidemic, and 25% of Americans are affected by it. There are currently not any medications approved for this disease. This is partly because we poorly understand the genetic mechanisms associated with this disease.... Read More

Alexander Gusev, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Oncology at Harvard University and a member of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Inside AJHG: A Chat with Alexander (Sasha) Gusev

Posted By: Kylee Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KS: What motivated you to start working on this project? SG: Tumor Mutational Burden (TMB) is one of a few FDA approved biomarkers for immunotherapy in solid tumors but the mechanisms for why certain tumors are TMB-high and why certain TMB-high tumors still do not respond to... Read More

Cassie Spracklen, PhD is an assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Inside HGG Advances: A Chat with Cassie Spracklen

Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project? CS: In order to move from genome-wide associated loci toward potentially effective clinical and therapeutic targets, we need to identify which target/effector gene(s) the associate variants are being modulated. There are multiple methods that currently exist that can be used to... Read More

Santhosh Girirajan, MBBS, PhD, is a Professor of Genomics and the T. Ming Chu Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University.

Inside AJHG: A Chat with Santhosh Girirajan

Posted By: Kylee Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KS: What motivated you to start working on this project? SG: My lab has been studying the mechanisms underlying the variable expressivity of rare variants in complex disorders like autism and intellectual disability. We observed that affected children inheriting a variably expressive rare variant (such as 16p12.1... Read More

Yosuke Tanigawa, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Computational Biology Lab at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Inside AJHG: A Chat with Yosuke Tanigawa

Posted By: Kylee Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KS: What motivated you to start working on this project? YT: As a researcher, it is important for me to think about this problem: what can you do to ensure the results and the benefits of your research are equally shared by everyone? It has been widely... Read More

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