Nascent Transcript Author: Honey Reddi, PhD, FACMG. Conceptually “Mentoring up” is about empowering mentees to be active participants in their mentoring relationships by understanding that the responsibility for success requires equal contributions from both the mentor and the mentee. The ASHG Career Development committee as part of its annual meeting organized a session on this topic. ... Read More
Nascent Transcript Author: Latrice Landry, PhD. You may have noticed it by now, but in addition to the scientific concepts, research skills, and good science communication [including presentation and writing], your career requires you to be skilled at having difficult conversations. This has never been more true than now. The pandemic has caused the infrastructure... Read More
Published: Thursday, October 29, 2020, 10:30 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Kara Flynn, 202.257.8424, press@ashg.org ROCKVILLE, MD — An international team of researchers who identified genetic variants associated with reproductive success say their findings could highlight mechanisms underlying fertility and infertility. In addition, their analyses detected genetic alleles under present-day selection, providing an insight into the... Read More
Published: Wednesday, October 28, 2020, 5:45 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Kara Flynn, 202.257.8424, press@ashg.org ROCKVILLE, MD — The COVID-19 pandemic is a global health crisis. Insights into why some people develop more severe symptoms than others and how to better treat the disease are desperately needed. The COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative was created to study... Read More
Published: Wednesday, October 28, 2020, 5:30 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Kara Flynn, 202.257.8424, press@ashg.org ROCKVILLE, MD — With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging worldwide, members of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) are working to understand how the virus spreads and infects people, why there is so much variability in susceptibility and severity, and where... Read More
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