Our amazing award winners! #IGES22 Nazia Pathan--The Williams Award Arjun Bhattacharaya--The Neel Award

Huge congratulations! Arjun Bhattacharya

So proud of this work led by Ruthie Johnson! Explore all association results from ATLAS across major ancestry groupings at this website: atlas-phewas.mednet.ucla.edu x.com/ruthie_johnson…

So excited to be a part of this work!

UCLA Health researchers analyze LA’s ‘stunningly diverse’ genetic ancestry to bring ethnic equity to precision medicine Ruthie Johnson compmed.ucla.edu/news/ucla-heal…

Wnt History. In 1973, the original wingless (wg) mutation was first reported in #Drosophila by RP Sharma @ Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi 🇮🇳. A follow up study was reported in Developmental Biology - Society for Developmental Biology Indian Society of Developmental Biologists bit.ly/3RNYakn

New preprint! We demonstrate that PGS accuracy varies continuously cross individuals within and across genetic ancestry clusters and highlight that PGS should be interpreted through the lens of continuous genetic ancestries. 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Welcome to LA #ASHG2022! Don't forget to stop by and hear amazing research from UCLA_Computational Medicine David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA trainees! Including Yi Ding Kangcheng Hou Arjun Bhattacharya Ruthie Johnson Vidhya Venkateswaran Christa Caggiano Brunilda Balliu and many more. compmed.ucla.edu/news/computati…

Wishing everyone a happy and healthy Diwali! 🪔🪷

2.15pm Ruthie Johnson on UCLA ATLAS biobank (ProgNbr 328) 2.30pm Vidhya Venkateswaran on application of PGS for tabacco use in the UCLA ATLAS biobank (PGS ProgNbr 299) 2/

It was surreal to give my first talk at my first #ASHG22 on "Tobacco-use PGS evaluation within the UCLA biobank! Thanks to ASHG for the opportunity, Bogdan Pasaniuc for your mentorship, and co-authors Arjun Bhattacharya, Kristin, Ruthie Johnson, and Yi Ding !

Happy Halloween!!

On what would have been the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we’re reminded that progress can move backward. And that means we’ve got to recommit to doing our part to protect and expand reproductive rights for families today — and for generations to come.

The horrific mass shooting after a Lunar New Year celebration in Monterey Park is devastating & impacts all of us, especially our Asian American Pacific Islander community. We stand in solidarity with AAPI staff, faculty, residents/fellows, students, patients, and communities.

I’m lucky to have benefited from Arjun Bhattacharya ‘s incredible and generous mentorship. Many congratulations and good luck to our newest PI!

What an accomplishment! Congratulations to the hardworking scientists and engineers of ISRO!

I had an incredible experience in this program with the most wonderful faculty. Strongly recommend the blended MPH Epi!

I'm proud to be a part of the incredible team NIDCR @NIH Work remains to be done, indeed.

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” – Rabindranath Tagore Happy #PSRW! Thank you to my colleagues at #NIH for their hard work & dedication to improving the health of all Americans. #PSRW2024