{"id":7261,"date":"2019-07-01T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/?p=7261"},"modified":"2020-09-23T13:16:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T17:16:47","slug":"dr-will-valdar-appointed-director-of-unc-bioinformatics-and-computational-biology-bcb-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/dr-will-valdar-appointed-director-of-unc-bioinformatics-and-computational-biology-bcb-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Will Valdar Appointed Director of UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB) Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"color: black\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7262 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2019\/06\/Will-Valdar-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"lead\">Will Valdar, PhD has been appointed Director of the<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>UNC<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Bioinformatics and Computational Biology curriculum, effective July 1, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Dr. Valdar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics with an outstanding research program in statistical genetics. 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