Evolution, genomics and disease: a very special Discovery Lecture
Sarah Tishkoff, PhD, a renowned human geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania, was awarded the 2024 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science. Kimberlyn Ellis, a graduate student in the…
$20 million grant supports sweeping study of human viruses
The grant will help establish the Vanderbilt-coordinated Virus Characterization Center, or V2C2. Vanderbilt Genetics Institute members will participate in the effort to characterize the human…
VUMC part of multisite team investigating genetic markers of anorexia nervosa
With funding from the newly established Sarah Kyle Anorexia Nervosa Research Foundation, the researchers hope to identify biomarkers that will point to novel targets for prevention and treatment…
Kimberlyn Ellis selected as 2024 Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar
Kimberlyn Ellis, a graduate student in the Training Program in Human Genetics, has been selected as the 2024 Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar.
Distant relatedness in biobanks harnessed to identify undiagnosed genetic disease
VUMC researchers have developed a genetic method that clusters distantly related people to find rare variants that were present in a common ancestor.