For Immediate Release: Friday, April 24, 2026, 12:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Evelyn Mantegani, [email protected] ROCKVILLE, MD – The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) today announced the winners of its 2026 DNA Day Essay Contest. ASHG awarded first place to Carla Monté (La Vall, Sabadell, Spain), second place to Shiree Lapin (Acellus Academy, Kansas... Read More
For Immediate Release: Thursday, April 9, 2026, 10:00 am U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Evelyn Mantegani, [email protected] Virtual Event Highlights the Latest Research at the Intersection of Omics, Regulatory Genomics, and Artificial Intelligence Rockville, Md. – The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) will host a two-day virtual symposium on April 28-29, bringing together leading researchers... Read More
Biomedical Research Funding Insufficient in President’s Budget Proposal On April 3, the Trump Administration released the President’s Budget Request (PBR) for FY 2027. The proposal cuts funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by 12.3 percent, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) by 37%, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) by more... Read More
Posted By: The American Journal of Human Genetics, AJHG AJHG: What motivated you to start working on this project? KL: We kept running into GWAS loci where the whole “one variant, one gene” story felt incomplete. You’d fine-map to a regulatory region sitting between multiple genes, and everyone would argue about which one was “the” causal gene—but what if that was... Read More
Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project? Authors: We came across the study by Valencia et al. that provided the neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD)-associated variants we used in our study. In that paper, it was shown that mutations causing neurodevelopmental disorders were most enriched in the chromatin-remodeling BAF complex,... Read More