This article originally appeared in the Washington Post and Yahoo News.

A new supplement to the Age-Based Genomic Screening (ABGS) project (PIs Drs. Milko and Berg) has been awarded to Grace Leon-Lozano, BS. 

Laura Milko, PhD (Assistant Professor, Genetics) was awarded a grant from the NC TraCS CTS Pilot Program.

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 12 papers during December 17th 2023 – January 6th 2024.

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 10 papers during August 27th – September 9th 2023.

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 8 papers during July 16th – 29th 2023.

Multiple faculty in the Department of Genetics have been awarded new subcontracts from other universities or a new service agreement with a company.

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 11 papers during November 6th – 19th, 2022.

Jonathan Berg, MD, PhD (Distinguished Professor) and Laura Milko, PhD (Assistant Professor) received a new R01 grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) for their proposal titled “Age-based genomic screening in newborns, infants and children: a novel paradigm in public health genomics”.

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 7 papers during July 31st – August 13th, 2022.   A multi-layer functional genomic analysis to understand noncoding genetic variation in lipids.  Ramdas S, Judd J, Graham SE, Kanoni S, Wang Y, Surakka I, Wenz B, Clarke SL, Chesi A, Wells A, Bhatti KF, Vedantam S, … Read more