December is a time for reflection, looking back on a terrific year for ASHG and looking forward to new directions and goals in 2019. What were your best 2018 ASHG memories, your proudest research accomplishments, your biggest professional challenges overcome? How do these inform your year ahead and how you’d like to engage with ASHG?... Read More
Outside Voices: AAAS CEO Rush Holt, PhD December 2018 ASHG: At its core, science drives new evidence and information that informs public life. Yet today, the idea of evidence is facing greater challenge and skepticism – climate change denial, the misuse of genetics to feed racist views, and misinformation about vaccines come to mind. As a... Read More
The Fall 2018 ASHG Board Meeting occurred October 15-16 before the Annual Meeting in San Diego. In addition to oversight and financial management responsibilities, the Board continued setting course for ASHG’s growth and new directions to serve members and the field ever more effectively. Annual Meeting and AJHG Remain Vibrant Leaders in the Field Given its proximity... Read More
ASHG President David Nelson wrote in support of a U.S. bill to expand access to genetic counseling services for Medicare beneficiaries. Read More
For Immediate Release Monday, November 26, 2018 1:30 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time Media Contact: Nalini Padmanabhan 301.634.7346 press@ashg.org Report from China, if Confirmed, Would Be at Odds with Field Consensus that Germline Editing is Not Ready for Human Use ROCKVILLE, Md. – Given this morning’s reports of infants possibly born in China whose genomes were... Read More
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