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We welcome Jocelyn Landau, PhD, as a Penn CIGHT postdoctoral researcher.
A Challenge Grant through the NHGRI was recently awarded to Penn CIGHT to assess attitudes about the utility of personal genomics in conjunction with the Coriell Personalized Medicine Collaborative!
Hakon Hakonarson presents results from a whole-genome CNV study with ASD children in Nature.
Watch CIGHT Director Dr. Reed Pyeritz discuss Abraham Lincoln and MEN2B testing on MSNBC!
Read about the recently published book,
When Experiments Travel:
Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects, authored by CIGHT's Adriana Petryna
Ruth Schwartz Cowan has published an article about mandated genetic screening on Cyprus.
The University of Pennsylvania Center for the Integration of Genetic Healthcare Technologies (Penn CIGHT) is one of six national Centers of Excellence for research on the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) of genetics and the human genome. The goal of the Penn CIGHT is to develop tools that will help consumers, professionals, policy makers and insurers understand and cope with the scope of certainty and uncertainty that the application of genetic technologies engender. The work of the center is conducted by teams of experts representing a broad range of disciplines, such as medicine, bioethics, law, behavioral and social sciences, public policy, economics, and research in genetics, genomics, and health services.