The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) conference kicks off this week in Denver, CO. Before we packed our bags, GEN chatted with Bruce Gelb, MD, director of the Center for Molecular Cardiology, and professor of pediatrics and genetics and genomic sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Gelb has also served as president of ASHG for one year. Because ASHG presidents serve one-year terms, Gelb says he is “on the home stretch.”
Gelb’s research interests include gene discovery, pathogenesis, and therapeutics, genetics of congenital heart disease, pediatric genomic medicine, undiagnosed diseases, newborn genome sequencing, diagnostic odyssey, and clinical implementation.
The Presidential Symposium, “Mendelian Traits: Thinking about Complexity in the World of ‘Simple’ Genetics,” represents these interests and will take place on Wednesday, November 6 at 5:30 pm MT.
The three speakers, Gregory Radick, PhD, from the University of Leeds, Athena Starlard-Davenport, PhD, at the University of…
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