PMI affiliate and first-year assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience, Dr. Summer Thyme, is UAB’s first recipient of a prestigious Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship! Dr. Thyme’s work focuses investigating pathways regulated by genes associated with psychiatric disorders (epilepsy, schizophrenia, and autism). This award will support Summer’s work to establish new approaches in drug discovery and precision medicine associated with neuropsychiatric disease, specifically rare genetic mutations that have a clear role in illness.
UAB joins NHGRI Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) consortium as an enhanced diversity clinical site.
A UAB team, lead by PMI’s Associate Director, Nita Limdi, PhD has been selected as a new enhanced diversity clinical site to better understand how to employ genomic risk assessments, especially in minority populations, in managing common chronic conditions. For more information see the NHGRI press release.
