Eden R. Martin, Ph.D., professor of human genetics and director of the Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics at the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, was awarded a $1.6 million grant by the National Institutes of Health to study genetic differences in ancestry among Hispanics in the U.S.
Scientists have identified 29 new genetic variants linked to multiple sclerosis, providing key insights into the biology of an important and very debilitating neurological disease. Many of the genes implicated in the study are relevant to the immune system, shedding light onto the immunological pathways that underlie the development of multiple sclerosis.
The 2011 Alzheimer’s Association Bengt Winblad Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Margaret A. Pericak-Vance, Ph.D., director of the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics and the Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Professor of Human Genomics, during a ceremony at the opening of the Alzheimer’s Association’s annual meeting on July 17.
June 17, 2011 — Margaret A. Pericak-Vance, Ph.D., and Jeffery M. Vance, M.D., Ph.D., interviewed
On May 23, 2011, Drs. Jeffery Vance and Margaret Pericak-Vance hosted the 3rd Annual International Thrombotic Storm Collaborator Meeting at the Hilton Bentley on Miami Beach.
Thrombotic storm collaborators have published their first paper, which outlines the diagnostic criteria for this extremely rare disorder. This research will finally give physicians the tools they need to rapidly recognize and treat this extremely serious condition
On May 23, 2011, Drs. Jeffery Vance and Margaret Pericak-Vance will host the 3rd Annual International Thrombotic Storm Collaborator Meeting at the Hilton Bentley on Miami Beach. Each year investigators come from around the United States and Canada to evaluate new cases, review data, and strategize.
An internationally recognized researcher of novel drug therapies for neuropsychiatric disorders and epigenetics has joined the Miller School faculty and leadership, bringing his team, his wealth of discovery and his drive to find new treatments for autism, Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, depression, addiction, Parkinson’s, macular degeneration and other human disorders.
Researchers led by geneticists at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have identified a new gene that causes retinitis pigmentosa, a form of blindness, ending one South Florida family’s nearly 20-year search for what caused three of their four children to lose their sight.
With delivery of the latest state-of-the-art next-generation sequencing technology, The John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics (HIHG) at the Miller School is now one of the largest facilities in the Southeast for next-generation sequencing (NGS).
A son of physicians and an economist by trade, John P. Hussman, Ph.D., may seem like an unlikely lead author on a paper identifying a new genetic pathway in autism research. But Hussman, father to a 16-year-old boy with autism, applied the same statistical tools he uses to map out complex economic relationships to produce new research findings.