At the Health Equity for Advancing Research and Technology using Genomic Neuroscience (HEART-GeN) lab, our goal is to improve treatments for brain disorders with health disparities. While 99.99% of our genome is shared across global ancestral populations, the very small fraction unique to a specific ancestral population can affect how genes turn on or off. We use this human variation to find these genes that may play a role in explaining health disparities for brain disorders.

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HEART-GeN Lab is Hiring!

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The HEART-GeN Lab is hiring for a postdoctoral position. The lab is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral fellow with expertise in bioinformatics and/or ma...

Dr. Benjamin awarded the ABRCMS Travel Judge Award

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Exciting news for HEART-GeN Lab as Dr. Benjamin is awarded the Travel Judge award for the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (A...

Exciting News for the HEART-GeN Lab!

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I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be joining Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor at in the Department of Psychiatr...