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The ASHG Board of Directors met on April 20-21 for its spring meeting in Rockville, MD, to review FY23 program progress and set FY24 goals; review FY23 fiscal performance and approve the FY24 budget; and learn about plans to celebrate ASHG’s 75 years of scientific achievement, among other items. The following overview highlights key discussions.... Read More

Taking ASHG’s Shared Interest Groups to the Next Level It’s been two years since ASHG launched an online member community, ASHG Connect! As a part of the online community, the Society also launched three Shared Interest Groups (SIGs) that have grown to nearly 2,000 members combined. These SIGs are Bioinformatics and Computational Methods, Phenotypes &... Read More

The ASHG Journal Clubs were established in the spring of 2020 to provide authors with an opportunity to present their work at a time when seminars and conferences were not taking place. Now, they are a regular feature within the ASHG Digital Programming portfolio. This month, we check in with two Journal Club presenters, Chiara... Read More

In May 2023, ASHG hosted its third year of virtual advocacy meetings on Capitol Hill. Both current and several former trainee advocates from the Advocacy Certificate for Human Genetics and Genomics Trainees (ACGT) program participated in this week-long advocacy activity. The ACGT program was launched as part of ASHG’s Government & Public Advocacy Committee (GPAC)... Read More

Following discussion at its spring meeting on awards names and the need to recognize, celebrate and cultivate attributes that are central to ASHG’s mission, ASHG is formalizing this goal through new award names that will now be descriptive, without an individual’s name attached. While the discussion was sparked initially by the Board of Directors’ actions... Read More