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PANKAJ ARORA, MD, FAHA, FASE , is an Associate Pro- fessor in the Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He also serves as the Director of Clinical and Translational Research in the Division of Cardiovascular Disease and the Director of the Cardiovascular Genomics Clinic at UAB. He completed
ANINDYA DUTTA, PHD, MBBS , is Chair of the Department of Genetics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine. Dutta received his Bachelor of Medi- cine-Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) from Christian Medical College, Vellore in India, and his Ph.D. from Rockefeller University in New York. He completed
a residency in medicine at Christian Medical College Hospital in India, a postdoctoral fellowship at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory supported by the American Cancer Society, and a residency in pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massa- chusetts. His laboratory is currently working on long noncoding RNAs that regulate cancer progression and a novel family of short regulatory RNAs called tRFs. JIAN HAN, MD, PHD , is the President and Cheif
his MD at Manipal University in India and received his postdoc- toral training in complex-trait genetics at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He subsequently completed his clinical cardiology fellowship training at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Dr. Arora’s long-term goal is to translate genetic discover- ies into an improved understanding of human physiology through clinically-focused patient-oriented research.
JEREMY DAY, PHD , is an assistant professor in the Department of Neurobiology at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. Day received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2009 and com- pleted a postdoctoral fellowship at UAB in the Department of Neurobiology. He joined the neurobiology faculty at UAB in 2014, where his lab investigates the
Scientific Officer of iCubate. He is the founder of several biotechnology companies, including two HudsonAl- pha associate companies, iRepertoire and iCubate. He studies the immune repertoire of different autoimmune diseases and cancers using multiplex
PCR and high-throughput gene sequencing.
ANNA C.E. HURST, MD, MS , is an assistant professor of medical genetics in the department of genetics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She trained as a genetic counselor at the University of South Car- olina School of Medicine (Columbia) and then completed her medical degree at the Medical University of South Carolina (Charleston). She is a board-certified
neurobiology of reward-related memory systems in the brain and the role of these circuits drug addiction. His research integrates molecular, physiological, behavioral, genetic, and epigenetic tools to understand how experience alters the brain and how those changes drive future behavior.
ZECHEN CHONG, PHD , is an Assistant Professor of Genetics and Informatics Institute at Heersink School of Medicine at the University of Ala- bama at Birmingham. Chong received his bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Department of Computer Sci- ence and Technology at Harbin Institute of Technology, China, and his master’s degree in bioinformatics and Ph.D.
pediatrician who completed pediatrics residency at Wake Forest Baptist Health (Winston-Salem, NC) and a medical genetics residency at UAB. Hurst is a clinician for the UAB Undiagnosed Disease Program, skeletal dysplasia clinic, and general genet- ics, and she provides genetic inpatient hospital consultations for patients at UAB and Children’s of Alabama. Her clinical interests include dysmorphology and congenital anomaly syndrome delin- eation, and she serves on the Scientific Advisory Board for Facial Dysmorphology Novel Analysis (FDNA). Her research focuses on expanding the availability of genomic sequencing for children with complex healthcare needs and incorporating phenotypic informa- tion into the interpretation of genomic data.
in Genomics at Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. He was trained as a postdoctoral fellow at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He joined UAB as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in 2017. His research focuses on developing novel algorithms applied to sequencing data, especially the new sequencing platforms such as PacBio, Nanopore, Bionano, 10X Genomics, etc., and applying innovative computational approaches to solving fundamental biological questions on a hypothesis-driven basis.
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