| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | |
| Department of Genetics, Center for Human Genetics | |
| Degree granted: | M.S. in Genetic Counseling, Ph.D. in Genetics, M.D./Ph.D. in Genetics |
| Training available: | Masters, Doctoral, M.D. Postdoctoral, Ph.D. Postdoctoral, Medical Genetics Residency; Combined Pediatrics/Medical Genetics Residency, Combined Internal Medicine/Medical Genetics Residency |
| Current enrollment: | 8 Masters, 46 Doctoral, 1 M.D. Postdoctoral, 13 Ph.D. Postdoctoral, 1 Residents |
| Number of graduates in last 2 years: | 8 Masters, 19 Doctoral, 1 M.D. Postdoctoral, 2 M.D./Ph.D. Postdoctoral, 1 Combined Pediatrics/Medical Genetics Residency |
| Faculty status: | 6 M.S., 27 Ph.D., 6 M.D., 3 M.D./Ph.D. |
| Areas of concentration: | biochemical genetics, clinical genetics, cytogenetics, developmental genetics, dysmorphology, epidemiology, gene mapping, genetic counseling, molecular genetics, oncological genetics, population genetics, prenatal diagnosis, somatic cell genetics, teratology, complex genetic disease, chromosome function & structure, molecular cytogenetics, mouse, Drosophila & C. elegans genetics, functional genomics, neurogenetics |
| Clinical training fellowships: | clinical genetics, clinical molecular genetics, Ph.D. medical genetics, clinical cytogenetics, clinical biochemical genetics |
| ABMG accreditation: |
clinical cytogenetics clinical biochemical genetics clinical molecular genetics |
| ACGME accreditation: | Clinical genetics |
| ABGC accreditation: |
Full status |
| Financial support: | Departmental funds, NIH predoctoral & postdoctoral training grants, individual fellowships, individual faculty research grants. Hospital funds support Medical Genetics residents. |
| Application deadline: | Preferably 9 months in advance of start of postdoctoral training; February 1 for predoctoral training beginning in July; February 1 for genetic counseling program. |
| Contact: |
A. G. Matera, Ph.D., Co-Director, Graduate Training Program, Case Western Reserve University, Department of Genetics, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44106-4955, Tel: (216) 368-1617, Fax: (216) 368-3030, E-mail: gxm26@po.cwru.edu Shawn E. McCandless, M.D., Director, Medical Genetics, Case Western Reserve University, Center for Human Genetics, 11100 Euclid Ave, Lakeside 1500, Cleveland, Ohio, 44106-6055, Tel: (216) 844-3936, Fax: (216) 844-7497, E-mail: shawn.mccandless@uhhs.com |
| Web homepage: | http://genetics.case.edu |
| The graduate and postgraduate training programs in human and medical genetics and genetic counseling are based in the Department of Genetics and Center for Human Genetics in the School of Medicine and at University Hospitals of Cleveland. The Center has strength in medical genetics, dysmorphology, adult onset genetic disorders, cancer genetics, metabolic genetics, neurogenetics, genetic counseling, clinical cytogenetics and DNA diagnostics, and prenatal diagnosis. Training opportunities leading to a Ph.D. and combined M.D./Ph.D. degrees and postdoctoral opportunities (M.D. fellowship, Ph.D. postdoctoral, and combined residencies) in both human and model system genetics research are available. The predoctoral program emphasizes molecular studies of human disease; chromosome structure and function; developmental genetics in humans, mouse, and Drosophila; molecular and genetic epidemiology of complex genetic disease; gene therapy; prositional cloning; and genome research. The Genetic Counseling Training Program, leading to a master's degree in genetics, includes didactic course work, extensive clinical training, laboratory experience and original research as part of a master's thesis. There are extensive collaborations with a number of other Departments and Centers. | |