August 2022

Published: Monday, August 29, 2022, 1:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Kara Flynn, (202) 257-8424,  press@ashg.org ROCKVILLE, MD – The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) today announced that the Illumina Corporate Foundation has awarded the Society a $175,000, one-year grant to support the ASHG Learning Center, a website portal that offers scientists from the genetics... Read More

Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project?   SM: Working with the Vanderbilt University Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) team during my PhD demonstrated the critical need for better approaches to variant interpretation in rare diseases. And even after a candidate gene and variant are identified, I observed that the... Read More

Published: August 17, 2022, 10:45 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Kara Flynn, (202) 257-8424, press@ashg.org ASHG with generous support from National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), Biogen, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Merck & Co., Inc, and Roche, is pleased to recognize this year’s Scholars. The Human Genetics Scholars Initiative was developed to help advance diversity and... Read More

Posted By: Sara Cullinan, PhD, Deputy Editor, AJHG SC: What motivated you to start working on this project? HT: Finding faults within the DNA sequences and learning their associations with disease has always piqued my interest. Our lab studies the genomic basis of complex hematological syndromes and particularly the pathogenic effect of a genetic variant... Read More