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Resource-Limited Travel Awards

Resource-Limited Travel Awards

Resource-Limited Travel Awards help defray the costs of ASHG Annual Meeting participation for those who would not otherwise have the funds to attend and participants residing in areas categorized by the World Bank as having low-income or lower-middle-income economies  (see the list of eligible countries). The ASHG Program Committee will select award recipients based on the... Read More

Headshot of Lerato Majara

Inside HGG Advances: A Chat with Lerato Majara

Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: What motivated you to start working on this project? LM: Polygenic risk scores (PRS) have been a hot topic in the field of complex disorders for several years now, and they continue to be topical as new methods and datasets emerge to aid in improving the prediction accuracy of these... Read More

Human Genetics Scholars Initiative

Human Genetics Scholars Initiative

Applications for the 2025-2027 Cohort closed on August 18, 2025. ASHG recognizes there is a great need to ensure that we have a workforce that represents people from all backgrounds and with varied perspectives and experiences. This is a need reinforced by many studies of the larger research community and experience within human genetics. ASHG... Read More

Get to Know Michael Bauer, Geneticist and Science Communicator

Posted by Evelyn Mantegani, Manager, Public Engagement, Communications and Marketing, ASHG Michael Bauer, PhD, is a member of the Public Education and Awareness Committee (PEAC) and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, Arkansas. He is a bioinformatician who specializes in cancer genomics using Next Generation Sequencing... Read More