Posted by: Anna Miller, PhD student, Case Western Reserve University We sat down with ASHG Board Member Dana Crawford, Associate Professor of Population and Quantitative Health and Genetics and Genomics Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, to learn more about her work and what motivates her. ASHG: Tell us about your position. Dr. Crawford: I... Read More
Published: Tuesday, January 14, 2020, 9:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Nalini Padmanabhan, 301.634.7346, press@ashg.org Rockville, MD – The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) announced today that Michael J. Bamshad, MD, has been named the inaugural editor-in-chief of Human Genetics and Genomics Advances (HGG Advances), the new open access journal of the Society, which will begin accepting submissions... Read More
Written by Nascent Transcript writer Allison McCague August 2018 May 21 of this year marked the tenth anniversary of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), a landmark piece of legislation that Senator Ted Kennedy—one of the sponsors of the bill—called “the first civil rights bill of the new century of the life sciences.” GINA’s passage was the... Read More
PRESS RELEASE Friday, October 22, 2010 Media Contact: ASHG Press Office 301-634-7346 press@ashg.org Experts Present Findings at ASHG 60th Annual Meeting that Provide New Insight on Patient and Physician Understanding and Use of Family Health History to Assess Disease Risk BETHESDA, MD – October 22, 2010 – Thousands of the world’s top scientists and clinicians... Read More