Dr. William Valdar, was accepted to the UNC Graduate School’s Frank Porter Graham Honor Society in recognition of outstanding contribution to graduate education at UNC.

Dr. Will Valdar has received an R35 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) for his project titled “Statistical Modeling of Multiparental and Genetic Reference Populations”.

During the last three weeks, Department of Genetics faculty members, along with their colleagues, have published 21 manuscripts on a wide variety of topics. A survey of current practices for genomic sequencing test interpretation and reporting processes in US laboratories. O’Daniel JM, McLaughlin HM, Amendola LM, Bale SJ, Berg JS, Bick D, Bowling KM, Chao … Read more

An investigation into diabetes-related outcomes in a rat model, with senior author William Valdar, PhD, assistant professor of genetics at UNC, and first author Leah Solberg Woods, PhD, from the Medical College of Wisconsin, has made the editor’s pick in this month’s Physiological Genomics, a journal of the American Physiological Society. The article is titled, … Read more