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The HGSI Scholars

Human Genetics Scholars Initiative

Future HGSI program information coming soon. ASHG recognizes there is a great need to ensure that we have a workforce that represents people from all backgrounds and with varied perspectives and experiences. This is a need reinforced by many studies of the larger research community and experience within human genetics. ASHG is committed to creating... Read More

Mitchell Machiela, ScD, MPH, is an Earl Stadtman Investigator in the Integrative Tumor Epidemiology Branch at the National Cancer Institute.

Inside AJHG: A Chat with Mitchell Machiela

Inside AJHG: A Chat with Mitchell Machiela KS: What motivated you to start working on this project? MM: Our main motivation for this study was to better understand how germline genetic variation in the 6p25.1 Ewing sarcoma (EwS) susceptibility locus contributes to EwS risk. Specifically, based on evidence from a prior investigation of the 10q21.3... Read More

Sofia Papadimitriou is an F.R.S.-FNRS postdoctoral researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium and Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.

Inside HGG Advances: A Chat with Sofia Papadimitriou

Posted By: HGG Advances  HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project?   SP: I always had an interest in the field of medical genetics, and oligogenic diseases specifically intrigue me because of their challenging nature, as even after years of research since their first official reporting in the early 1990s, our knowledge on... Read More