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Dr. Georgia Dunston is professor and chair of the
Department of Microbiology at Howard University College of Medicine,
and
founding director of
the newly formed National Human Genome Center (NHGC) at Howard
University. Her research on human genome variation in disease
susceptibility has been at the vanguard of current efforts
at Howard University
to build national and international research collaborations
focusing
on the genetics of diseases common in African Americans and
other African Diaspora populations. Dr. Dunston is program
director of
the coordinating center for the Africa America Diabetes Mellitus
Study, an international collaboration to study the genetics
of type 2 diabetes in ancestral populations of African Americans,
and the
coordinating center for the African American Hereditary Prostate
Cancer Study Network, a national cooperative formed to map
and characterize genes for prostate cancer in African Americans.
The NHGC is instrumental
in bringing multicultural perspectives and resources to an
understanding of knowledge gained from the Human Genome Project
and research on
human genome variation.
Dr. Robert Murray serves as professor of pediatrics
and medicine and chief of the Division of Medical Genetics in the Department
of Pediatrics and Child Health in the College of Medicine at
Howard Medical School. In addition, he is graduate
professor and chairman of the Graduate Department of Genetics
and Human Genetics, which offers both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees
through the Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences, also at Howard University. He has
authored or co-authored more than 80 publications including four
books — most
recently, The Human Genome Project and the Future of Health Care.
Dr. Murray is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science, a fellow and member of the board of directors of
the Hastings
Center, a fellow of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy
of Sciences, and a former member of its governing council. He has been
a member of the Mammalian Genetics Study Section of the Division
of
Research Grants, NIH, the National Advisory General Medical Sciences
Council of NIGMS, NIH, and the Bioethics Advisory Committee to
the Secretary of DHEW 1979-81. He is a member of the American Board
of
Internal Medicine and the American Board of Medical Genetics.
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