Posted By: The American Journal of Human Genetics, AJHG AJHG: What motivated you to start working on this project? Valerie Arboleda (VA): The most enjoyable projects often emerge from learning new methods and tackling shared problems. In this case, my friend, co-author (Keriann M. Backus, PhD), and lab neighbor had been generating exciting chemoproteomic datasets... Read More
Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project? Jayati Sharma (JS): I have been interested in how our genetics and environment interact to affect our overall physical health for a long time. Given the significant disparities in the health profiles of different minoritized populations in the United States, I... Read More
Posted By: The American Journal of Human Genetics, AJHG AJHG: What motivated you to start working on this project? MD: This project began as I rotated in the lab of Christopher (Casey) Brown, PhD. Casey was a leader of the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) consortium, and his graduate student at the time, Brandon Wenz, had generated... Read More
Posted By: The American Journal of Human Genetics, AJHG AJHG: What motivated you to start working on this project? LB: A few years ago, I had an experience that made me realize that clinical genetic testing in the electronic health record (EHR) represented an enormous and largely untapped resource that could help patients and drive... Read More
President’s Proposed Budget Insufficient to Support Biomedical Research “Today, the Trump Administration released a proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2026 that cuts the National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget by nearly 40 percent and the National Science Foundation (NSF) budget by 57 percent. Without adequate funding for NIH, NSF and other agencies within HHS, research... Read More