March 2024 - ASHG

March 2024

Photo of all the 2024 Resource-Limited Awardee at the ASHG 2023 annual Meeting Held in Washington D.C.

Needs-Based Travel Awards

Needs-Based Travel Awards help defray the costs of ASHG Annual Meeting participation for those who would not otherwise have the funds to attend. The ASHG Program Committee will select award recipients based on the quality of submitted abstracts. Award Requirements To be awarded a Needs-Based Travel Award, nominees must: Not otherwise have the funds to... Read More

ASHG Thanks Congress for Sustaining Support for Biomedical Research, Urges Congress to Pass FY’24 Appropriations

ASHG Thanks Congress for Sustaining Support for Biomedical Research, Urges Congress to Pass FY’24 Appropriations

For Immediate Release: Thursday, March 21, 2024, 1:30 pm U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Kara Flynn, 202.257.8424, [email protected] ROCKVILLE, MD - The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) thanks Congress for sustaining its support for biomedical research in the FY 2024 conference agreement by funding the National Institutes of Health (NIH) at $47.1 billion. In a... Read More

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