After more than a decade of rich scientific discovery and significant faculty and student recruitment, the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy will be evolving into several new programs as of July 1.
"With the success of the Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy under the skillful leadership of Hunt Willard, the genome sciences have grown from being a distinct discipline into a collection of approaches and tools that permeate imaginative and path-breaking research across our campus," said Nancy Andrews, MD, PhD, dean of the medical school. "Today, genomics impacts everything from comparative studies of primate evolution, to the diagnosis of infection before symptoms have appeared, to the discovery of new genetic disorders in individual patients. New programs emerging from the success of IGSP will define a next generation of genome science and its applications."
At the conclusion of Willard's term as the founding IGSP director on June 30, the IGSP will evolve into three distinct units that will continue to interact around shared projects and their shared culture of interdisciplinary science and university-wide collaboration.
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