Department retreat 2023
Congratulations! Alma Wilson was awarded the President's Award for Distinguished Service!
Congratulations to Margaret Michicich for winning a F31 NIH Pre-Doctoral Fellowship!!!!
Congratulations Paul Tesar! Dr. Tesar is one of 3 CWRU Faculty who have been elected among 83 “of the world’s best emerging academic inventors” to the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) 2022 class of Senior Members. Click here to read the article.
License to advance antisense therapy for Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease based on discovery from Dr. Tesar's Lab! Click here to read the article.
Our faculty seek to improve human health both through cutting edge genetics and genomics research and by training the next generation of scientists. Their research interests include epigenetics, neurogenetics, stem cell biology, chemical genomics, developmental genetics, metabolic disorders, and cancer genetics.
Our Genetics graduate program trains the next generation of scientists in many areas of modern genetics, genomics and biomedical research. Our students pursue careers in basic and applied research in academia, industry, teaching, healthcare, publishing, foundations and government.
Our Genetic Counseling Training Program prepares students for the ongoing practice of genetic counseling in the rapidly changing healthcare environment of the 21st century.