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Congratulations to Barbara Bernhardt, on her recent R01 Upenn/Columbia collaboration NIH award!
Congratulations to Jennifer K. Wagner, JD, PhD, on her recent NIH "Pathway to Independence" award (K99/R00) titled "Multidisciplinary study of Race, Appearance, Ancestry, Discrimination & Prejudice".
Welcome Postdoctoral Trainee Jessica Mozersky , PhD, to CIGHT.
Read a recently published LDI Issue Brief on genetic screening for HHT, based on a CIGHT research project.
CIGHT Postdoctoral trainee Diana Harris, MBE, PhD, has been awarded a 2011 grant through the RWJ Foundation to study parent perspectives on pediatric biobanking research at CHOP.
Congratulations to CIGHT Postdoctoral trainee Elly Teman, PhD, as the recipient of three prestigious awards at the American Anthropological Association 2011 meeting.
Watch a roundtable discussion with CIGHT investigators and other panelists as they discuss "Your Genetic Profile: How Much Do You Want to Know… and What Good Will It Do You If You Know"
Congratulate Jocelyn Landau, PhD, CIGHT Postdoctoral Researcher, on her Honorable Mention distinction in the 2010 Seymour Sudman Paper Competition through the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR)
CIGHT Historian M. Susan Lindee, PhD, lectures on cystic fibrosis as part of The New York Academy of Medicine's Section on the History of Medicine and Public Health.
CIGHT Postdoctoral Researcher Elly Teman, PhD, had the leading letter to the editor in the New York Times on December 16, 2009.
Read an article in the Genome Web Daily News about an upcoming personalized medicine project led by CIGHT Co-Director Barbara Bernhardt with Erynn Gordon of Coriell and RWJ Scholar Sarah Gollust .
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.
Penn CIGHT was awarded a Challenge Grant 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!
Penn CIGHT internal advisory board member, Jonathan Moreno, named to President-elect Barack Obama's transition team.
Congratulations to Penn CIGHT internal advisory board member, Sandy Schwartz, for being elected to the Institute of Medicine.
The Penn CIGHT has received an award to study the meaning and impact of new genetic testing.
Read about the recently published book, Heredity and Hope , authored by Ruth Schwartz Cowan
GINA has passed the Senate. Check out this position paper on GINA created by an undergraduate class at Penn for Congressman Joseph Sestak.
It's All In the Genes (Or Is It?): Barbara Bernhardt talks about how medicine can guide individuals to an understanding of their own genomes.
Unraveling Our Own Code: Nancy Spinner speaks with Science Progress about new techniques at her cytogenetics laboratory.
Ruth Schwartz Cowan teaches an Ideas-in-Action course with Congressman Joseph Sestak.