Human Genetics Dispatch
Human Genetics Dispatch includes a message from the Chair; summaries of various faculty, staff, and student accomplishments; notable publications; research news; collaborative projects; and medical genetics updates.
Dispatch Archives
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Addendum 1: Medical Genetics, March 2024 (a remarkable patient story)
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Addendum 2: ACMG 2024 (roundup of meeting)
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2025 Spotlight Story
Kathryn Garber honored by GCTP students
Congratulations to Kathryn Garber, PhD, for earning the Paul M. Fernhoff Excellence in Teaching Award. Students of the Genetic Counseling Training Program select the recipient of this annual award. According to their collective statement, Dr. Garber "went to great lengths to make sure every student had their questions answered, everyone felt welcome to participate, and that the concepts she was teaching were retained."
Dr. Garber coordinates genetics education across the medical school, and her instruction is informed by her experience working as a clinical analyst at Emory Genetics Laboratory.
Paul Fernhoff, MD, was the first medical director of Emory's Genetic Counseling Clinical Program. He was a co-founder of the Genetic Counseling Training Program and served on the faculty of Emory Human Genetics for over 36 years. He passed away in 2011.
Archived News
2025
New tool combines multiple data sources to detect tissue structures in cancer
Steven Sloan earns 2025 Provost's Distinguished Teaching Award
Online journal launched at Emory for those who teach health professionals
Elizabeth Leslie selected for prestigious PECASE Award
Emily Peery and Azalea Lee receive Heyman Family awards supporting fragile X research
Stalking brain cancer's shapeshifters – and their healthy counterparts
2024
‘Test kitchen’ for brain organoids attracts chefs
2024 Faculty Recognitions Week Awardees
Rossana Sanchez Russo named to 2024 Top Hispanic & Latino Doctors list
Elizabeth Leslie and Jingjing Yang honored as top Emory researchers
Emily Allen honored by National Fragile X Foundation
Elizabeth Leslie honored for orofacial clefts research
NextGen biomedical internship program inspires creativity
Hong Li, Rossana Sanchez Russo, and William R. Wilcox named to Atlanta magazine's 2024 Top Doctors
Peng Jin named 2023 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Emory Brain Organoid Hub Workshop, 10/14-10/18/24
Bing Yao and colleagues detail how depletion of TDP-43 facilitates neurodegenerative diseases
New faculty member: Jian Zhou, PhD
2023
Hong Li and William R. Wilcox named to Atlanta magazine's 2023 Top Doctors
In Memoriam: Genetic counselor and pioneer Cecelia Bellcross
Heyman Family Fragile X Trainee Fund
2022
Stephen T. Warren Memorial Symposium
NextGen gives high school students a peek at biomedical research
Hong Li & William Wilcox named Atlanta's Top Clinical Genetics Doctors in 2022
DOHG & DOMG celebrate Rare Diseases Day
Support the Stephen T. Warren Memorial Fund
2021:
Emory Genetics Clinic and CHOA join NORD Rare Disease Center of Excellence network
Maureen Sampson, PhD, named Postdoctoral Enrichment Program Fellow
Dawn Laney, PhD, honored by Emory School of Medicine as an outstanding faculty member
2020:
Emory Fragile X Center: $8 million NIH grant supports next-generation neuroscience