| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | |
| Department of Human Genetics | |
| Degree granted: | Ph.D. in See below |
| Training available: | See below |
| Current enrollment: | 11 Doctoral, 2 Ph.D. Postdoctoral, 4 Clinical cytogenetics, molecular genetics, 1 M.D. medical genetics |
| Number of graduates in last 2 years: | 4 Clinical cytogenetics, molecular genetics |
| Faculty status: | 12 Ph.D., 6 M.D. |
| Areas of concentration: | clinical genetics, cytogenetic technology, cytogenetics, developmental genetics, dysmorphology, gene mapping, immunogenetics, molecular genetics, oncological genetics, pharmacogenetics, population genetics, prenatal diagnosis |
| Clinical training fellowships: | clinical genetics, clinical molecular genetics, clinical cytogenetics |
| ABMG accreditation: |
clinical cytogenetics clinical molecular genetics |
| ACGME accreditation: | Clinical genetics |
| Financial support: | Per Director |
| Application deadline: | None |
| Contact: | Darrel Waggoner, MD, Medical Director, University of Chicago, Human Genetics, 5841 S. Maryland Ave., MC 0077, Chicago, IL, 60637, Tel: 773-834-0555, Fax: 773-834-0556, E-mail: dwaggone@genetics.uchicago.edu |
| Web homepage: | http://www.genes.uchicago.edu/ |
| The Department of Human Genetics is a new and active department at The University of Chicago. The medical genetics-training program is partnered with Children s Memorial Hospital at Northwestern University and clinical activities occur at both institutions. There are active outpatient and inpatient genetic services at both institutions providing exposure to dysmorphology, biochemical, and pre-natal genetics. In addition, the clinical cytogenetics and molecular genetics training programs have a wide range of clinical activities and research interests that include telomere screening, pharmacogenetics, orphan disease diagnostics, technology development and cancer genetics. The individual faculty use a wide variety of techniques and approaches in their research, including mouse models, comparative genomics, theory and methods development, positional cloning, population genetics, pharmacogenetics, and cytogenetics. For information regarding our graduate and postdoctoral training please see the graduate program on this website or go to our homepage at: http://www.uchicago.edu. | |