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 State University in 2010. Dr. Milko earned a Graduate Certificate in Dissemination and Implementation Science from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in 2024. Dr. Milko was appointed Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics on April 24, 2019, and became the Associate Director of the Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care. Dr. Milko is MPI of the Age-Based Genomic Screening (ABGS) R01 project, which is funded by the NIH to develop and evaluate a novel clinical program and implementation strategies to include highly actionable genetic information into pediatric well-child health care. She is the Executive Director of the UNC ClinGen U24 grant led by Jonathan Berg, and a member and co-chair of several ClinGen Working Groups, including the ClinGen Steering Committee.