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The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us research program has made its initial genomic data available, bringing nearly 100,000 whole genome sequences onto its data analysis platform, the Researcher Workbench
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The UAB Heersink School of Medicine has awarded the annual Multi-Investigator Program Award to three research investigators for the 2021-2022 cycle: Timmy Lee, M.D., Bruce Korf, M.D., Ph.D., and David Pollock, Ph.D.
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The Heersink communications staff sat down with Dr. Zechen Chong to gain insights about the research of this study, UAB, and the science community.
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Anindya Dutta, Ph.D., MBBS, has been named chair of the Department of Genetics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine.
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The School of Medicine holds a remarkable 193 endowed chairs and 103 endowed professorship positions. These honors contribute to recruitment and retention of premier teachers, clinicians, and researchers. This year, 23 faculty members received endowments.
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- department of medicine
- department of pathology
- department of cell, developmental and integrative biology
- division of preventive medicine
- office of diversity and inclusion
- division of infectious diseases
- department of neurology
- division of nephrology
- department of radiation oncology
- department of psychiatry
- department of urology
- department of neurobiology
- department of genetics
- department of otolaryngology
- department of pediatrics
Fallon Brewer, M.S., CGC, has been selected to chair the Alabama Board of Genetic Counseling, which was recently established by the Alabama Legislature.
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Bruce R. Korf, M.D., Ph.D., was recently named associate dean for Genomic Medicine in the School of Medicine. Korf currently serves as UAB Medicine’s chief genomics officer and holds the Wayne and Sara Crews Finley Endowed Chair in Medical Genetics. He will continue to hold both of those positions along with his new appointment.
Six School of Medicine faculty projects were recently funded through an AMC21 initiative giving NIH-funded investigators incentive to submit a second R01.
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Children’s of Alabama, the UAB Department of Genetics and the UAB-HudsonAlpha Center for Genomic Medicine will host the 5th annual Rare Disease Genomics Symposium on Friday, March 2, at 8 a.m. in the Bradley Lecture Center. The day-long conference is open to the public and will commemorate Rare Disease Day.
Gene Siegal, M.D., Ph.D., has been named interim chair of the Department of Genetics beginning Jan. 15. Siegal replaces former chair, Bruce Korf, M.D., Ph.D., who was named the Chief Genomics Officer for UAB Medicine in 2017.
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