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January 22 Vence L. Bonham, J.D. – National Institutes of Health
“Moving Beyond the Social Construct of Race in Genomics Research”
January 27 David Craig, PhD – University of Southern California
“1000 Genomes: Defining Global Genetic Ancestry”
January 29 Charles Rotimi, PhD - National Institutes of Health
“Genetic Ancestry in African Populations”
February 3 Esteban González Burchard, MD, MPH - University of California, San Francisco
“Genetic Ancestry and Complex Human Diseases”
February 5 Rick Kittles, PhD – City of Hope
“African Ancestry and Inherited Disease”
February 10 Timothy R. Rebbeck, PhD – Harvard
“Genetic Ancestry and Cancer Genomics”
February 12 Christopher Haiman, ScD – University of Southern California
“Genetic Ancestry and Prostate Cancer”
February 17 Franklin W. Huang, MD, PhD - UCSF
“Genomics of prostate cancer in African Americans”
February 19 Zarko Manojlovic, PhD – University of Southern California
“Genomics of Multiple Myeloma in African Americans”
February 24 Clayton C. Yates, PhD - Tuskegee University
“African Ancestry in Triple Negative Breast Cancer”
February 26 Wendy Cozen, DO, MPH – University of California, Irvine
“Genetics of Multiple Myeloma in African Americans”
March 3 Jun J. Yang, PhD – St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
“Population Diversity and Risk of Leukemia Treatment Outcomes”
March 5 Nathan A. Ellis, PhD - University of Arizona Cancer Center
“Genetic diversity and colorectal cancer”
March 10 Folakemi T. Odedina, PhD - University of Florida
“Genetic Diversity in Africa and Caner Disparities”
March 17 Melissa Davis, PhD - Weill Cornell Medicine
“Duffy allele, Ancestry, and breast cancer”
March 19 Laura Fejerman, MSc, PhD – UC Davis
“Genetics of cancer in Latin Americans”
March 24 Kevin L. Gardner, MD, PhD – Columbia University
“Breast cancer disparities”
March 26 TBD
March 31 Chanita Hughes-Halbert, MS, PhD – Medical University of South Carolina
“Vitamin D and Allostatic Load”
April 2 TBD
April 9 Altovise T. Ewing, PhD, LCGC - Genentech
“Genetics, Ancestry, and Disease Risk – An Industry Perspective”
April 14 Veronica Wendy Setiawan, PhD - University of Southern California
“Genetic Diversity and Pancreatic Cancer”
April 16 Victoria L. Seewaldt MD – City of Hope
“Diversity and breast cancer”
April 21 Brid M. Ryan, PhD, MPH - National Institutes of Health
“Genetic Ancestry, Biology, and Lung Cancer in African Americans”
This program is open to all eligible individuals. USC operates all of its programs and activities consistent with the university’s Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation or any other prohibited factor.
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