ASHG News

ASHG Announces 2023 Professional Award Winners

For Immediate Release: Tuesday, July 25, 2023, 12:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Kara Flynn, (202) 257-8424, press@ashg.org ROCKVILLE, MD – The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) is proud to announce and congratulate the recipients of the ASHG 2023 professional awards, which honor outstanding scientific achievements as well as significant contributions to genetics... Read More

ASHG Announces CEO Transition

ASHG Announces CEO Transition

For Immediate Release: Monday, July 24, 2023, 12:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Kara Flynn, (202) 257-8424, press@ashg.org CEO Mona Miller Will Step Down in November After Six Years of Significant ASHG Growth, Ensuring Society Navigated the Pandemic Successfully, and Setting New Strategic Directions ROCKVILLE, MD – The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)... Read More

Inside HGG Advances: A Chat with Ozvan Bocher

Inside HGG Advances: A Chat with Ozvan Bocher

Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project?  OB: Most genetic association studies are currently focusing on European populations, which creates disparities with other under-represented populations, especially when translating these studies into the clinic. Polygenic predictions are based on these studies and represent an important component of precision medicine.... Read More

James V. Talwar is a graduate student in the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Program at the University of California San Diego.

Inside AJHG: A Chat with James V. Talwar

Posted By: Kylee Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KS: What motivated you to start working on this project? JT: The unresolved mystery of personal history. Alright, that’s unnecessarily cryptic, let me try again. Upon completing my undergraduate studies, I found myself the unwilling protagonist of a medical odyssey, one highlighted by indiscriminate immune attack and... Read More

Statement of Brendan Lee, MD, PhD President, American Society of Human Genetics Regarding the U.S. Supreme Court Decisions in <em>SFFA v. University of North Carolina, et al and SFFA v. President & Fellows of Harvard College</em>

Statement of Brendan Lee, MD, PhD President, American Society of Human Genetics Regarding the U.S. Supreme Court Decisions in SFFA v. University of North Carolina, et al and SFFA v. President & Fellows of Harvard College

For Immediate Release: Thursday, June 29, 2023, 1:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Kara Flynn, (202) 257-8424, press@ashg.org “With today’s U.S. Supreme Court decisions, the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) stands with the united STEM community to affirm the essential role of a diverse scientific workforce to realize research benefits for people everywhere... Read More

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