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Human Genetics and Genomics Study Program(HGP)

Study Program Director: Allison Ashley-Koch, PhD
 
Our genetic makeup to a large extent dictates our health. The promise of the Human Genome Initiative is a greater understanding of the genetic components to health. Once the genetic contributions to common diseases like osteoarthritis, heart disease, and cancer are understood, the physician will have a powerful means at his or her disposal for identifying individual risk factors and offering lifestyle modifications. The study program in human genetics offers third year medical students an integrated program for understanding research in human genetics, its application to human genetic disease for risk assessment, genetic counseling, and potential therapeutics, and ethical and legal implications for this research on the patient, the family, and society. We anticipate that students in this program will follow one of several broad paths, utilizing either a molecular approach or a statistical approach to understanding and treating human genetic disease.

Research opportunities are available in laboratories studying such diverse topics as positional cloning of human disease genes, apoptosis gene therapy, biochemical genetics, animal models of genetics and development, and genetic epidemiology. At the end of the year, students are expected to produce a thesis summarizing their work.

In addition to the laboratory work, the program requirements include a year-long seminar series held weekly targeting current topics in human genetic research. Other elective courses may be taken with the permission of the program director and the student's preceptor.


Faculty

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Allison Elizabeth Ashley-Koch, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Track V in Medicine		 Rose-Mary Na'Aman Boustany, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
Blanche Capel, Ph.D.
Professor of Cell Biology		 Yuan-Tsong Chen, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
Jen-Tsan Ashley Chi, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology		 Robert M Cook-Deegan, M.D.
Research Professor Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy
Gregory E. Crawford, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Pediatrics		 Phillip George Febbo, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
David Benjamin Goldstein, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology		 Michael Arthur Hauser, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Elizabeth Rebecca Hauser, Ph.D.
Associate Professor - Track V in Medicine		 Priya Sunil Kishnani, M.B.B
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Chief, Medical Genetics
John Archbold Klingensmith, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Cell Biology		 Dwight D. Koeberl, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Virginia Byers Kraus, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine		 Douglas Alan Marchuk, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Director, Center for Experimental Genetics
Thomas Douglas Petes, Ph.D.
Minnie Geller Professorship for Research in Genetics in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Chair, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology		 Joellen Martha Schildkraut, Ph.D., M.P.H
Professor of Community and Family Medicine
William Keith Scott, Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine		 Svati Hasmukh Shah, M.D., M.H.S
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Bruce Alan Sullenger, Ph.D.
Joseph W. and Dorothy W. Beard Professor of Experimental Surgery in the School of Medicine
Director of the Duke Center for Translational Research		 Beth Ann Sullivan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Huntington Faxon Willard, Ph.D.
Nanaline H. Duke Professor of Genome Sciences in the School of Medicine
Director of the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy for the DU School of Medicine		 Michelle Parthenia Winn, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Associate Vice-chair for Diversity in the Department of Medicine
Fulton Wong, Ph.D.
Professor of Ophthalmology
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