In an effort to build a precision medicine community at UNC, PPMH has created a membership system. This system has now rolled out and is now available to the UNC and UNC Health Community! Three types of PPMH membership are offered: UNC Faculty and Staff UNC Health UNC Trainee (graduate student, postdoc, medical student, or … Read more
The UNC Clinical Genomic Analysis (GENYSIS) Core is a PPMH-affiliated research service that collaborates with the BioSpecimen Processing (BSP) facility, the High-Throughput Sequencing Facility (HTSF), and the McLendon Molecular Genetics Laboratory (MGL) to provide clinical researchers with four main services: Bioinformatics: human genome alignment of sequence data and variant calling via a custom in-house pipeline … Read more
The PPMH Precision Analytics Initiative has wrapped up its first round of consultation services, and has granted Dr. Kimberly Shoenbill and her research group a $2500 pilot award to use toward their project, “Using NLP Algorithms to Improve Identification and Use of EHR Tobacco Information”. To see project submission details, click here.
Join the UNC Program for Precision Medicine in Healthcare (PPMH) for Biomedical Imaging for Precision Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Therapy, a free virtual mini-symposium on Monday November 7, 2022 from 11:00am to 12:00pm ET. At this interactive event, you will engage in discussion with leading Precision Medicine researchers at UNC. Precision medicine harnesses cutting edge data … Read more
Jonathan Berg, MD, PhD (Distinguished Professor) and Laura Milko, PhD (Assistant Professor) received a new R01 grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) for their proposal titled “Age-based genomic screening in newborns, infants and children: a novel paradigm in public health genomics”.
PPMH recently published a newsletter for spring 2022. Click here to download the newsletter: PPMH newsletter spring 2022
Authors from the ABGS Community Research Board (CRB) and the PPMH research team collectively co-authored a paper, “Parental Guidance Suggested: Engaging Parents as Partners in Research Studies of Genomic Screening for a Pediatric Population” that was recently accepted for publication in a special issue of Frontiers in Genetics: DNA-Based Population Screening for Precision Public Health. … Read more
Joint Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Ethics and the ELSI of Precision Medicine Call for Applications: The University of North Carolina (UNC) Center for Genomics and Society (CGS) and the Center for Bioethics (C:B), together with the Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care (PPMH), announce a joint postdoctoral position in clinical ethics and the ethical, … Read more