NEW YORK, NY (January 13, 2022) — “We offer this preliminary report of our experience to date with P-1000 in the hope that investigators in other regions of the USA and other countries will be encouraged to develop similar programs, to make use of the WGS [whole genome sequencing] data that we will ultimately provide, […]
NEW YORK, NY (January 6, 2022) — The New York Genome Center (NYGC) is pleased to announce the arrival of two new NYGC Core Faculty Members, who will each hold joint appointments at NYGC member institutions: Gamze Gürsoy, PhD, is a bioinformatician specializing in genetic data privacy, a critically important aspect of genomics research. She […]
NEW YORK, NY (December 6, 2021) — Ongoing SARS-CoV-2 viral sequencing surveillance efforts, such as those being conducted at the New York Genome Center (NYGC), will be critical to tracking the arising Omicron variant and assessing its impact on public health. That was the key perspective that NYGC scientists Michael Zody, PhD, Scientific Director of […]
NEW YORK, NY (December 23, 2021) — Scientists at the New York Genome Center (NYGC) have received an Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research Program Clinical Development Award from the Department of Defense’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs to lead a project focused on performing single nucleus RNA sequencing of postmortem tissues from patients in the ALS-frontotemporal dementia […]
NEW YORK, NY (October 20, 2021) — The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has selected Hemali Phatnani, PhD, Core Faculty Member and Director, Center for Genomics of Neurodegenerative Disease, New York Genome Center (NYGC), as a grantee in its Cellular Senescence Network (SenNet) program. Dr. Phatnani also holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor of […]
NEW YORK, NY (September 30, 2021) — A team led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, Harvard Medical School and the New York Genome Center has profiled in unprecedented detail thousands of individual cells sampled from patients’ brain tumors. The findings, along with the methods developed to obtain those findings, represent a significant advance in cancer research, and […]
