Author Archives: Jonathon Cornett

Quan Sụn (Doctoral Student, Biostatistics) and Dr. Yun Li (Professor, Genetics and Biostatistics) published “Advances in haplotype phasing and genotype imputation” in Nature Reviews Genetics.

New Grants Awarded to Dr. Chuck Perou (Distinguished Professor, Genetics) and Dr. Hyejung Won (Associate Professor, Genetics).

Dr. Laura Milko has been promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics, effective September 1, 2025. Dr. Milko received her BS in Biology from Howard University (2000), followed by her PhD in Conservation Biology from the University of New Orleans (2007).  She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at North Carolina...

The Chair's Mid-Career Genetics Faculty Research Fund was established in the department of genetics as a non-endowed program fund in the UNC Health Foundation by a donor based on their belief that cutting-edge fundamental research relies on the creativity and ingenuity of scientists and their willingness to challenge long-held assumptions....

Hyejung Won (Associate Professor of Genetics) Awarded 2025 Neurobiology of Brain Disorders Award.

Dr. Jennifer Goldstein has been promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics, effective July 1, 2025.

Dr. Melissa Haendel (Professor of Genetics; School of Data Science and Society) participated in a July 2025 episode of "The Genetics Podcast" with host Dr. Patrick Short.

UNC GeNe Families including Graduate Students from the Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and the Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology celebrated the end of academic year 2024-2025 with a summer kick-off on the lawn of Genetic Medicine Building on the UNC campus on Tuesday, June 17. The event...

Dr. Qingyun Liu (Assistant Professor, Genetics) has been selected to participate in the 2025-2026 Leadership in Academic Medicine Program (LAMP). 

Dr. Eric Hurwitz, postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Melissa Haendel (Distinguished Professor, Genetics), is the first author on a new paper titled “Unlocking the potential of wear time of a wearable device to enhance postpartum depression screening and detection: cross-sectional study”, published in the journal JMIR Formative Research.