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Burroughs Wellcome Fund award creates new Ph.D. path linking laboratory and population sciences
Date:11/18/2008

, led by Kenneth Brigham, MD, associate vice president of predictive health and professor of medicine, Emory School of Medicine, and Michelle Lampl, MD, PhD, professor of anthropology, Emory College.
  • Population Processes and Dynamics of Infectious Diseases, led by Bruce Levin, PhD, professor of biology, Emory College, and David Stephens, MD, vice president for research, Woodruff Health Sciences Center and director, Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory School of Medicine.
  • Biomarkers and the Development of Acute and Chronic Diseases, led by K.M. Venkat Narayan, MD, MBA, Hubert professor of global health, Rollins School of Public Health, and Peter Wilson, MD, professor of medicine, Emory School of Medicine.
  • Public Health Genomics: Genetic and Environmental Determinants of Health, led by Michele Marcus, PhD, professor of epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health and Stephanie Sherman, PhD, professor of human genetics, Emory School of Medicine.

    • The M2M program also will offer an elective global science experience through the Emory Global Health Institute, the CDC and existing Emory collaborative programs in a variety of countries.

    According to the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, trainees of its new programs may bring "new approaches to combining genomics with phenomics, addressing questions of population genetics, understanding molecular and environmental epidemiology, and a range of other issues important to understanding human health and its disruptors."


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