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Penn CIGHT Monthly Meetings:

**Please note: starting in January 2012, all CIGHT meetings will begin at 12pm

February 8, 2012, 12pm, Gates Conference Room, 4th Floor Penn Tower.
CIGHT Postdoctoral Trainee Sony Tuteja-Stevens, PharmD, MS, will present her survey work on pharmacists’ knowledge and attitudes towards pharmacogenetic testing.
March 7, 2012, 12pm, Bridge Level Conference Room, Penn Tower.
CIGHT Research Associate Marian Reiff, PhD, will present her current work on the implications for families and health providers of chromosomal microarray testing in children.
April 11, 2012, 12pm,
Gates Conference Room, 4th Floor Penn Tower.
Andy Faucett, MS, CGC, Director of Policy and Education, Genomic Medicine Institute at Geisinger Health System will present.
May 9 , 2012, 12pm,
Rheumatology Conference Room, 8th Floor Penn Tower. Penn CIGHT Pilot Award recipients Kim Nichols, MD, and Vivianna VanDeerlin, MD, PhD, will present on the progress of their projects.
June 6, 2012, 12pm,
Bridge Level Conference Room, Penn Tower

Penn CIGHT Journal Club

Inaugural journal club to be hosted by Reed Pyeritz, MD, PhD, on Friday, January 27, 2012 at 12pm in the Rheumatology Conference Room, 8th floor Penn Tower.
Topic: Pharmacogenetics of clopidogrel
Articles: Holmes et al; Scott et al; Nissen
March 2, 2012 at 12pm
April 20, 2012 at 12pm
May 4, 2012 at 12pm

2010 Seminar Series

April 15, 2010, 4:30pm
Room 201 Bennett Hall
"Not Fade Away:  Race and the Politics of the Meantime in  Biotech  Patenting and Drug Development"
Dr. Jonathan Kahn, Professor, Hamline University School of Law
Co-Sponsored with the History and Sociology of Science Department

January 15, 2010, 12:00pm. "On (Not) Understanding Personalized Genetic Testing: Human, Meet the Internet" 
Dr. Celeste Condit, Professor, Dept of Communications, University of Georgia
Co-Sponsored with the Annenberg School for Communication

*Funds for all seminars provided by the Provost's Interdisciplinary Seminar Fund*

2009 Seminar Series

First Annual CIGHT Symposium (Fall 2008)

Second Annual CIGHT Symposium (Fall 2009)
2009 CIGHT Symposium Video Gallery

Third Annual CIGHT Symposium (October 8, 2010)
Please check back for multimedia from the symposium!