Author: Judy Quinn

WCM’s Onyinye Balogun, MD, and Melissa B. Davis, PhD, Appointed Ethnicity and Cancer Scholars for NYGC’s Polyethnic-1000 Initiative

NEW YORK, NY (April 19, 2021) — The New York Genome Center (NYGC) is pleased to announce the appointments of Onyinye Balogun, MD, and Melissa B. Davis, PhD, esteemed health disparities researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, as Ethnicity and Cancer Scholars for NYGC’s Polyethnic-1000 (P-1000) initiative. Launched in 2018, P-1000 is a regional, multi-institutional research […]

Just Call Us Variant “Hunters” — Gothamist Profiles NYGC Scientists On the Front Lines in Article Series

NEW YORK, NY (April 1, 2021) — “I have to use my knowledge and expertise and go back to the lab and try to really help.” That’s a quote from Zharko Daniloski, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Sanjana Lab and one of several scientists at the New York Genome Center (NYGC) profiled in Meet […]

NYGC Scientists Are Co-Authors on Hackensack Meridian Health’s Study on Advanced Test to Track and Diagnose COVID-19 Variants

New rapid high-throughput test detects E484K COVID-19 mutation in hospital and care settings across New Jersey NUTLEY, NJ (April 1, 2021) — Experts at the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation (CDI) have developed a high-throughput test that can detect multiple variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in two-and-a-half hours, a major advance in tracking the virus and […]

NYT’s “A DNA Sequencing Revolution Helped Us Fight COVID. What Else Can It Do?” Showcases Visit to NYGC, NYGC Scientist Interviews

NEW YORK, NY (March 25, 2021) — “One morning last August, after the pandemic’s first wave had ebbed on the East Coast, I visited the New York Genome Center in Lower Manhattan to observe the process of genomic sequencing.” This first-person reporting is part of A DNA Sequencing Revolution Helped Us Fight COVID. What Else […]

Washington Post, Bio-IT World Showcase Sanjana Lab’s SARS-CoV-2 Research

NEW YORK, NY (March 16, 2021) — Recent research published in the past few weeks has eased some worries about some of COVID-19 variants’ ability to escape vaccines, yet it is still concerning that the virus is still spreading at an extraordinary rate. This cautionary perspective is provided by Neville Sanjana, PhD, Core Faculty Member […]

NYGC Featured In “5 Scientific Organizations Making Important Discoveries” List

NEW YORK, NY (March 16, 2021) – The New York Genome Center (NYGC) is featured in “5 Scientific Organizations Making Important Discoveries,” a wiki list and video roundup published today by Ezvid Wiki. The feature includes an NYGC video segment that showcases NYGC scientists and labs as well as the NYGC’s social media presence and […]

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