Dr. Heather Mefford
@hcmefford
Physician, scientist, mom, wife
#genetics #epilepsy #pediatrics #raredisease
@StJude @StJudeResearch
formerly @UWMedicine
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https://www.stjude.org/research/labs/mefford-lab.html 26-01-2017 06:25:49
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Celebrating trainee success! Congrats to Helen.Pennington on getting into grad school BU Bioinformatics! #ProudPI
💙💖💚💜 On the rarest day of the year, February 29, the #MightyLights will glow blue, pink, green and purple for #RareDiseaseDay on behalf of Accredo by Evernorth. #LightUpForRare
It’s the rarest day on the calendar… #RareDiseaseDay ! I know your feeds are filled with informative content on rare diseases and empowering stories from patients and caregivers, but I wanted to carve some space to talk about a topic on everyone’s minds recently – IVF.
One more for #RareDiseaseDay2024 - we are committed to tackling the rare and ultra-rare neurological disorders St. Jude Research from basic science to the bedside using precision medicine approaches. 🧠 🧬 🧠 🧬
Fantastic Spatial Omics symposium today St. Jude Research! One of the best parts was catching up with super scientist and #RareDisease mama Kimberly Aldinger, PhD! Great talks from all involved! We learned a lot and now we are ready to do some fancy science with Dr. Jasmine Plummer 👩🏻🔬🧬🇨🇦🇺🇸! 🧬 🧬
Today is CHD2 Awareness Day!! Follow Coalition to Cure CHD2 to learn more about this #genetic 🧬 #epilepsy 🧠 #RareDisease . More importantly, if you can, DONATE to this fabulous group today to double your impact!
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A tour de force led by Dr. Helen Chen, PhD St. Jude Research to model, understand, and someday treat #UBA5 #epilepsy , a #RareDisease (among many) that needs better treatments for better outcomes. 🧠 🧬 🧫 🧠 🧬 🧫 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Love witnessing and contributing to this fabulous St. Jude Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences student's journey in science and in life.👇Read Christy W. LaFlamme's first-hand account of finding self below. #WomenInSTEM St. Jude Research #mentorship #proudPI 🧬🧠💜🧠🧬
10 women in STEM - pick it up and keep it moving
Dr. Lori L. Isom Prof Ingrid Scheffer Gemma Carvill, PhD Rikke S. Møller Hsiao-Tuan Chao (赵孝端), MD PhD FunGen Lab @ UGent Nicky Whiffin Ghayda Mirzaa, MD Heidi Rehm Erin Heinzen (and so many more!!)🧬🧠🧬🧠🧬🧠