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As director of NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Diana W. Bianchi, MD, oversees a broad portfolio of research on pediatric health and development, maternal health, reproductive health, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and rehabilitation medicine, among other areas. She is also a board-certified medical geneticist with special expertise... Read More

By Kiran Musunuru, MD, PhD, MPH, ML With its first in-person Annual Meeting in three years, the American Society of Human Genetics was able to convene more than 7,000 people in Los Angeles this past October. It was a welcome opportunity to reconnect the global human genetics and genomics community in person after a long... Read More

With historically little data available on the characteristics of the human genetics and genomics workforce, ASHG in a collaborative partnership between the National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC) and the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG), conducted a first-of-its-kind survey to understand the demographics of the workforce, as well as the climate and... Read More

By ASHG President Charles Rotimi, PhD As the year comes to a close, it is humbling to reflect on the exceptional genetics and genomics achievements in the field during this time and the many contributions of our Society. We can also celebrate the curiosity, ingenuity, and persistence of our members that has yielded significant advances... Read More

ASHG recently sat down with Mike Bamshad, MD, Editor-In-Chief of HGG Advances to learn more about the upcoming launch of the Early-Career Investigator Award set to make its debut in the fall. HGG Advances is ASHG’s open access journal that was unveiled in May of 2020 and is dedicated to providing a high-quality, fully open... Read More