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Genetics professor receives R01 grant (Links to an external site)
Guoyan Zhao, PhD, recently received her first R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a milestone achievement. WashU Medicine has risen to No. 3 among U.S. medical schools in total NIH research funding support.
Genetics department hosts NHGRI-funded consortia meetings
The Genetics Department at Washington University coordinates the effort of hosting meetings of National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)-funded consortia. The consortia meetings span 5 days from 9.11 – 9.16 and took place on Washington University School of Medicine campus.
WashU leads new multi-omics production center for NIH research consortium (Links to an external site)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is channeling $50.3 million over the next five years into a new consortium dedicated to advancing the generation and analysis of multi-omics data for human health research.
Wang, nationally recognized geneticist, named head of genetics (Links to an external site)
Ting Wang, PhD, a national leader in genetics and genomics who has led groundbreaking studies in how the genome is regulated, has been named head of the Department of Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. A computational biologist, he will begin his new role Aug. 1.
Detailed human pangenome reference captures human diversity (Links to an external site)
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis serves as the national coordinating center for the program, called the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium.
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