http://chgr.mc.vanderbilt.edu/rss/news News Feed for Center for Human Genetics Research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center en-us Thu, 4 Sep 2008 13:50:14 CDT Thu, 4 Sep 2008 13:50:14 CDT http://chgr.mc.vanderbilt.edu/rss/news CHGR - Greg Donald greg.donald@vanderbilt.edu (Greg Donald) greg.donald@vanderbilt.edu (Greg Donald) http://chgr.mc.vanderbilt.edu/news/chgr-investigator-featured-in-genome-technology CHGR's Dana Crawford is quoted in the article "NHGRI Issues $31M to Follow-Up SNP Research" detailing her involvement in grant research through the National Human Genome Research Institute. Thu, 4 Sep 2008 13:50:14 CDT http://chgr.mc.vanderbilt.edu/news/chgr-investigator-featured-in-genome-technology http://chgr.mc.vanderbilt.edu/news/epidemiology-grant-awarded-to-chgr-investigator CHGR investigator Dana Crawford was awarded a 4 year, 7 million dollar grant to study the how genetic variants initially identified through GWAS research are related to complex, common disease. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:58:22 CDT http://chgr.mc.vanderbilt.edu/news/epidemiology-grant-awarded-to-chgr-investigator http://chgr.mc.vanderbilt.edu/news/chgr-investigator-featured-in-mit-technology-review Dana Crawford, PhD is featured in the July MIT Technology Review commenting on the award of a new NHGRI grant. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:25:18 CDT http://chgr.mc.vanderbilt.edu/news/chgr-investigator-featured-in-mit-technology-review http://chgr.mc.vanderbilt.edu/news/chgr-investigator-awarded-nhgri-grant-for-understanding-biological-roots-of-common-disease CHGR investigator Dana Crawford, Phd. was awarded a 4 year, 7 million dollar grant from the NHGRI to investigate the biological roots of common disease Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:00:35 CDT http://chgr.mc.vanderbilt.edu/news/chgr-investigator-awarded-nhgri-grant-for-understanding-biological-roots-of-common-disease http://chgr.mc.vanderbilt.edu/news/dana-crawford-named-future-pi-in-genome-technology CHGR member Dana Crawford was featured in the December 2007 issue of Genome Technology as one of "Tomorrow''s PIs" Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:02:57 CDT http://chgr.mc.vanderbilt.edu/news/dana-crawford-named-future-pi-in-genome-technology http://chgr.mc.vanderbilt.edu/news/next-generation-dna-sequencer-aids-research Just a year ago, deciphering the sequence of a single person''s genome - around 3 billion "letters," or bases, long - cost millions of dollars and took several months. But rapid advances in genome sequencing technology are making this process much faster and cheaper. Vanderbilt Medical Center has now entered this "next generation" of DNA sequencing with the... Tue, 13 May 2008 16:28:05 CDT http://chgr.mc.vanderbilt.edu/news/next-generation-dna-sequencer-aids-research http://chgr.mc.vanderbilt.edu/news/lauren-c-walters-receives-american-gastroenterology-association-award Lauren C. Walters, a third year Ph.D. candidate in the Center for Human Genetics Research, has been awarded one of two American Gastroenterology Association Foundation 2008 Graduate Student Awards. The award, $40,000 over two years, is designed to help defray the cost of Ph.D. candidates who are studying the biology and epidemiology of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, l... Thu, 8 May 2008 14:42:12 CDT http://chgr.mc.vanderbilt.edu/news/lauren-c-walters-receives-american-gastroenterology-association-award http://chgr.mc.vanderbilt.edu/news/dr-jeff-canter-publishes-first-of-its-kind-amd-research Tennessean.com and other publications have quoted the CHGR's Jeff Canter, M.D. and M.P.H., on his recently published work concerning genetics and age-related macular degeneration. Canter's research is the first published on the mitochondrial genome and its potential association with age-related macular degeneration, the primary cause of vision loss in Americans 60 years of age and ... Wed, 7 May 2008 13:45:23 CDT http://chgr.mc.vanderbilt.edu/news/dr-jeff-canter-publishes-first-of-its-kind-amd-research http://chgr.mc.vanderbilt.edu/news/jonathan-haines-ph-d-featured-in-august-2007-i-reporter-i Jonathan Haines, Ph.D., is featured on the front page of the August 3, 2007 edition of the Reporter. The article entitled Immune system gene linked to MS: study also features post-doctoral fellow Jacob McCauley for his involvement in performing the statistical analysis completed in the study. The article can found at the following link:http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.ht... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:27:59 CST http://chgr.mc.vanderbilt.edu/news/jonathan-haines-ph-d-featured-in-august-2007-i-reporter-i http://chgr.mc.vanderbilt.edu/news/jonathan-haines-ph-d-his-lab-featured-cnn MS Gene Discovery - Jonathan Haines, Ph.D., and his lab featured on CNN.Watch the Video Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:26:56 CST http://chgr.mc.vanderbilt.edu/news/jonathan-haines-ph-d-his-lab-featured-cnn