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How does DNA Determine Someone’s Predisposition to Disease?

Our department is dedicated to graduate training in human genetics research (including molecular, statistical, and bioinformatics research), public health genetics, and genetic counseling.

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Public Health and Engineering team up on five research projects

Pitt’s School of Public Health, Swanson School of Engineering, and Clinical and Translational Science Institute have joined up to award $450,000 to five transdisciplinary pilot investigations focused on precision public health, a field that uses data science to develop targeted interventions by person, place and time. 

Afshin Bahramy

Human Genetics student earns American Heart Association Fellowship

Afshin Bahramy, a pre-doctoral student in the Department of Human Genetics at the School of Public Health, has been awarded the American Heart Association (AHA) Pre-doctoral Fellowship for his groundbreaking research on hippocampal sclerosis (HS).