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Erica Korb, an assistant professor of Genetics and member of the Epigenetics Institute, has been selected as a 2020 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Neuroscience. This award recognizes and rewards early-career scholars that have…

In a recent paper in Immunity, Assistant Professor Golnaz Vahedi, and her team reveal DNA misfolding in white blood cells increases the risk for Type 1 diabetes. This finding is an important step in identifying…

The Department hosted Dr. David Reich, from Harvard University, as the 2020 Bernard Cohen Memorial Lecture speaker. Dr. Reich is a population geneticist renowned for his work on human population structure, and the identification of…

Colin Conine joined the Department of Genetics, the Division of Neonatology, as well as the Penn Epigenetics Institute as an Assistant Professor in January. Colin joins us from the University of Massachusetts Medical School where…