STAGE ISSS: Stephen S. Rich

Join us for the next instalment of the STAGE International Speaker Seminar Series (ISSS) with

Stephen S. Rich

Director, Center for Public Health Genomics,
Harrison Professor & Vice Chair,
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia

Talk Title:

The Search for Genes Associated with Ischemic Stroke through GWAS and Exome Sequencing

Abstract:

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Speaker Profile:

Stephen S. Rich is the University of Virginia Board of Visitors Distinguished Faculty Scholar, the Harrison Professor and Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Public Health Sciences, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Director of the Center for Public Health Genomics at the University of Virginia. He received his undergraduate degree in Mathematics from North Carolina State University (minor in genetics) and graduate degrees (M.S. and Ph.D.) in Population and Quantitative Genetics from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He conducted postdoctoral research at Purdue University developing a simulation model of artificial selection in populations with genetic structure. Dr. Rich was on the faculty of the University of Minnesota from 1981-1994, where he rose to the rank of tenured Professor of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology and contributed to the establishment of the Institute for Human Genetics. He was on the faculty of Wake Forest University from 1994-2007 where he served as Vice-Chair of Public Health Sciences and founded the Center for Genetic Epidemiology. In 2007, he was appointed founding Director of the University of Virginia Center for Public Health Genomics. Dr. Rich has made many important contributions to the understanding of the genetic epidemiology and molecular basis of type 1 diabetes, and to the identification of genes and processes associated with autoimmunity, complications of diabetes, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. He was the recipient of the David Rumbaugh Award for Scientific Achievement from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in 2009.

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