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Pharmacogenomics Research Spotlighted

Prominent Lecture Series To Showcase Work By Team Featuring Shenandoah Pharmacy Associate Dean and Professor

Art HarralsonThe research conducted by Bernard J. Dunn School of Pharmacy Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Pharmacogenomics Arthur “Art” Harralson, Pharm.D., and his team, looking into cardiovascular health in African Americans, is being spotlighted at noon, Tuesday, March 26, as part of the National Human Genome Research Institute’s Genomics and Health Disparities Lecture Series: Exploring the Role of Genomics in Achieving Health Equality.

Dr. Harralson is part of a team that received a five-year, $9.6 million grant in October 2016 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, and which is developing a model for the discovery, translation and implementation of precision medicine in African Americans that will lay the groundwork for continued investment and growth in minority pharmacogenomics. Read more about the grant award at su.edu.

The lecture, “From Genomics to Multi-omics: African-American Precision Medicine,” by team principal investigator Minoli Perera, Pharm.D., Ph.D., who is an associate professor in the pharmacology department at Northwestern University, can be watched live at https://www.genome.gov/genometvlive.

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