CRGGH former trainee highlighted in NHGRI news
Former postbaccalaureate trainee, Keolu Fox, was recently showcased in the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) news from the Office of the Director. Mr. Fox was an intramural research training award fellow at the CRGGH before moving on to the PhD program in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington.
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CRGGH Working Group member, Dr. Gary H. Gibbons, named as director of National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Dr. Gibbons is currently at the Morehouse School of Medicince where he serves as the director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute and professor of physiology and medicine. Dr. Gibbons is no stranger to the NIH having served most recently on the advisory council for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. He also currently serves as a Working Group member of the CRGGH.
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Publication Alert: HLA Class II Locus and Susceptibility to Podoconiosis
Published in the New England Journal of Medicine, CRGGH postdoctoral fellow, Fasil Tekola Ayele, Ph.D., along with CRGGH Deputy Director and Director, shed light on the genetic basis of endemic nonfilarial elephantiasis, otherwise known as podoconiosis or "mossy foot". This international collaborative research project is the first study of a non-communicable disease using genome-wide association for any African population.
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UNC-CRGGH host historic meeting on "The Genetics of the Peoples of African and the Transatlantic African Diaspora" in Chapel Hill, NC
The CRGGH was honored to co-host this important event with Dr. Fatimah Jackson, Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina (held on March 19-20, 2012). The conference sought to inform our understanding of health disparities observed among African-descended peoples by exploring the genetic and cultural diversity of the. Towards this goal, the conference program highlighted research from leading and world-renown scientists spanning the fields of genomics, epigenetics, biotechnology, ethics, linguistics, paleontology and anthropology.
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Dr. Rotimi to present at Science/AAAS Webinar "The Hunt for Missing Heritability: Challenges and Opportunities for Novel Locus Discovery in Non-European Populations"
On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 12:00 PM EST/9:00 AM PST, CRGGH Director Dr. Charles Rotimi will speak during a webinar hosted by Science Magazine and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and sponsored by Affymetrix. The Webinar will be co-presented by Carlos Bustamante, PhD from Stanford University School of Medicine.
