Tafadzwa Machipisa
@mach_taffy
Postdoc @PennMedicine. PhD from: University of Cape Town @UCT_news / PHRI @PHRIresearch. Interests: Human Genetics, Pathology & Cardiovascular Disease
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06-06-2019 18:16:09
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Including African Americans in genomic studies can result in 5x more accurate prediction of disease risk in the African population. šstudy published in Nature Medicine reveals that lack of diversity could mean missing out on earlier diagnosis & care. š bit.ly/3x6y2cH
A powerful speech by the Head-boy of the affluent Heritage School. He talks about how his family hit economic hard times, and had to move to Epworth sharing 2 rooms. He sleeps on the sofa chair, and used a Kombi, but didnāt let that deter him. He became the head boy regardless.
From ParĆ©, Engel, + team: Rationale, Design, and the Baseline Characteristics of the RHDGen (The Genetics of Rheumatic Heart Disease) Network Study ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.116ā¦ AHA Science #AHAjournals #genetics #CardioTwitter
Celebrating all the amazing young ladies in our group The African Computational Genomics Research Group on this year's international day of women and girls in Science. @somberyl Tafadzwa Machipisa Brenda Udosen
Today, an interesting piece on āMortality Inequalities of Black Adults in Canadaā was released. Congrats to our Statistics Canada team for making this a reality š„³š . Publication link: www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/cataloguā¦
ICHG 2023 Cape Town: "An African Agenda for Africa by Africans". Dr Francis Collins pays tribute to Prof Bongani Mayosi. Prof Mayosi was Principal Investigator of the project "Genetics of Rhematic heart Disease in Africa" (RhDGen), an NIH- Wellcome funded Human Heredity and Health in Africa project.#ICHG2023
