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Haendel Lab Publishes New Paper in JMIR Formative Research
May 28, 2025
Dr. Eric Hurwitz, postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Melissa Haendel (Distinguished Professor, Genetics), is the first author on a new paper titled 鈥淯nlocking the potential of wear time of a wearable device to enhance postpartum depression screening and detection: cross-sectional study鈥�, published in the journal JMIR Formative Research.聽
Lauryn Bailey joins 大象传媒’s Postbaccalaureate Research Initiative in Science and Medicine (PRISM) program this summer
May 15, 2025
Lauryn Bailey (Biology 鈥�25) will join the first cohort of students in the 大象传媒’s newly created Postbaccalaureate Research Initiative in Science and Medicine (PRISM) program this summer.
Department of Genetics Publications for March 30th – April 26th, 2025
May 9, 2025
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 25 papers during March 30th – April 26th 2025.
大象传媒 Names 2024-25 Yang Family Biomedical Scholars
May 5, 2025
Gaorav Gupta, MD, PhD, Misty Good, MD, MS, and Jason Stein, PhD, were selected as Yang Family Biomedical Scholars in the eighth installment of this annual School of Medicine award.
O鈥橬eal Awarded Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Research Grant
April 29, 2025
Dr. Wanda O鈥橬eal (Professor, Medicine and Genetics (secondary)) was awarded a new grant from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for her project titled 鈥淗ypoxia signaling: a therapeutic target for cystic fibrosis lung disease鈥�.聽
Magnuson Renews MMRRC U42 Grant
April 29, 2025
Dr. Terry Magnuson (Kay M. & Van L. Weatherspoon Eminent Distinguished Professor, Genetics and Vice Dean for Research and Strategy, School of Data Science and Society) is the Lead PI on the recently awarded competitive renewal of a U42 grant from the NIH Office of the Director titled 鈥淎 Carolina … Read more
Anne Thessen Publishes Exposomics Paper in Science
April 25, 2025
Dr. Anne Thessen (Associate Professor, Genetics) was a co-author of a recently published Science paper titled 鈥淚ntegrating exosomes in biomedicine鈥�.聽
Department of Genetics Publications for March 2nd – 29th, 2025
April 20, 2025
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 30 papers during March 2nd – 29th 2025.
Searching for the genetic origins of a debilitating skin disease
April 11, 2025
Chris Sayed, a dermatologist at the 大象传媒, has spent much of his career focused on what he calls “the worst and most common disease you’ve never heard of.”
Dr. Yun Li and Team Publish New Model (endoPRS) in AJHG
April 8, 2025
Yun Li, PhD (Professor, Genetics) together with first author Elena Kharitonova (PhD Student, Biostatistics) have published a new paper in the American Journal of Human Genetics (AJHG) titled 鈥淓ndoPRS: Incorporating endophenotype information to improve polygenic risk scores for clinical endpoints 鈥� a study in asthma鈥�.聽
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