Being a Scientific Chatterbox
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William Anderson
Behind the Scenes of the ASHG Career Accelerator, Interview with Danjuma Quarless, PhD, MBA
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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
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
Inside AJHG: A Chat with Heather Wheeler
Posted By: Kylee Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KS: What motivated you to start working on this project? HW: We know from eQTL studies that trans-acting loci tend to have smaller effect sizes than cis-acting loci. By aggregating cis-acting effects into one predicted expression level, as is done in the TWAS method PrediXcan, we had... Read More