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by Mary Butkus
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Genome conference draws experts
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by Mary Butkus
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by Mary Butkus
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A conference on "The Human Genome Project: Expanding the Conversation"
at the School of Medicine's Eric P. Newman Education Center recently
brought together scholars from widely divergent disciplines. Among
the speakers were Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. (above), director
of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes
of Health, who delivered the opening keynote address; Nancy S. Wexler,
Ph.D. (above right), the Eugene Higgins Professor of Neuropsychology
at Columbia University and president of the Hereditary Disease Foundation;
and Robert H. Waterston, M.D., Ph.D., the James S. McDonnell Professor
of Genetics and head of that department at Washington University School
of Medicine. This conference was co-sponsored by the Washington University
School of Law's Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and the School
of Medicine. |
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