UAB Medicine's Bruce Korf, M.D., Ph.D., joins CBS42 to discuss the nationwide AllofUsResearch Program run by the NIH and urges local Alabamians to participate in this groundbreaking study that aims to prevent illness by learning more about you.🧬brnw.ch/21wD1JX

Our team had a blast at the Global Genes RARE Advocacy Summit! Our PMI representatives were Nate Fehrmann, Ashley Ferguson, Alexandria Howard, and Aleksandra Foksinska. Our analysts shared a poster on using A.I. to uncover treatments for rare genetic disorders. #GGSummit23

UAB Medicine's Bruce Korf, M.D., Ph.D., joins CBS42 to discuss the nationwide AllofUsResearch Program run by the NIH and urges local Alabamians to participate in this groundbreaking study that aims to prevent illness by learning more about you.🧬brnw.ch/21wD1JX

Nadia Pardo, a 2nd-year medical student at UAB Heersink School of Medicine, presented her research at MSRD. She investigated potential drug-repurposing candidates for the SCN2A gene as part of UAB PMI’s SUPREME program. #uab UAB Heersink School of Medicine

UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center Associate Director Dr. Fernando Ovalle is rounding us out, talking about Precision #Diabetes in Alabama. UAB Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism UABPrecisionMedicine #endocrinology #conference

Unveiling the impact of community-acquired infections: Dive into the American Physiological Society's featured article 🦠
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The AllofUsResearch Program celebrates its 5th year of operation!🎉 This groundbreaking NIH initiative involves 25,000+ Alabamians and aims to gather health data from underrepresented groups around the country to improve the future of #Healthcare .
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Pankaj Arora, MD, is joined by Ali Al-Beshri, MD, Vibhu Parcha, MD, and Taylor McClinchey, MS, to discuss the process and emerging benefits of identifying genetic risks for some of the most common #CVDs .
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If you haven't heard, UABPrecisionMedicine will be moving to a new building on campus very soon!

The new building will bring together us along with UAB Informatics Institute! For more info on the groundbreaking, read here:

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Chief Genomics Officer, Medical Genetics at UAB Medicine, Bruce R. Korf, MD, PhD, discusses genomic testing and when it may be helpful. Watch here: fal.cn/3luxc

“We are honored to receive a Rare Disease Centers of Excellence designation as recognition of UAB and Children's continued commitment to provide cutting-edge treatment and research for much of the Southeast,” - Nathaniel Robin, M.D.

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UAB is collaborating with @nih to genotype DNA from 40,000 COVID-19 positive individuals to investigate both common and rare variants associated with differences in disease outcome using a case-case design. dceg.cancer.gov/research/how-w… #COVID19

2021 UAB Virtual Neurofibromatosis Symposium - University of Alabama at Birmingham calendar.uab.edu/event/2021_uab…

#HudsonAlpha & UAB publish Alabama Genomic Health Initiative 1st major data set in Genetics in Medicine #research #teamscience #collaboration #genomichealth #ALBiotech
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The Alabama Genomic Health Initiative: the road to a more genomically literate community #HudsonAlpha UAB BioAlabama #ALBiotech #collaboration #genomichealth
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Honoring trailblazers during #BlackHistoryMonth we celebrate the work of James E. Bowman, MD. An expert on pathology and genetics, he was the first tenured African-American faculty member in medicine at the University of Chicago. Learn more:
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New #webinar : 'Advancing Health #Equity : A Community Conversation for #RareDiseaseDay ” on February 25 at 2:00pm ET. #ShowYourStripes #HealthEquity
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3 Alabama Genomic Health Initiative participants were included in this study. Thanks to funding from the State of Alabama #AGHI is shortening the diagnostic odyssey for individuals affected by undiagnosed disease. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj…

Hear from NCBiotech's Sara Imhof, Ph.D. Sara Imhof and @UABSOM's Bruce Korf, Ph.D. Bruce Korf on state-based, population-based efforts to leverage new science with the capacity of medicine, public health and the private sector. Register now. #PrecisionHealthNC #precisionhealth