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Promoting Genetic Literacy: The Greenwood Genetic Center Receives Grant from the National Institutes of Health

October 9, 2009

Contact: Dr. Leta M. Tribble (864-943-4170) Dr. Roger E. Stevenson (864-941-8146)

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NGHRI) has awarded a grant in the amount of $860,000 to the Education Division of the Greenwood Genetic Center (GGC). Funding will be over a two year period with the project under the direction of Dr. Leta M. Tribble, Director of Education at the Center.

“These funds from the National Institutes of Health will allow us to enhance the on-campus and outreach educational activities of the Center, especially those that involve high school students and teachers,” said Dr. Roger Stevenson, Director of the Greenwood Genetic Center.

Funds will be used to expand the Center’s Outreach Education programs which serve to support and encourage a greater understanding of the field of human genetics. The project has two components:

-A Genetics Education Center, housed in an existing building on the GGC campus, will provide laboratory-based activities in human genetics and biotechnology for visiting classes. -A Mobile Genetics Education Laboratory, a 40 foot bus designed and equipped as a science laboratory, to provide laboratory-based activities in human genetics and biotechnology. The Mobile Lab will focus on serving students and teachers in communities from which travel to the Center’s main campus is not practical.

One of the project’s key supporters, Dr. Ray Wilson, Director of the Western Piedmont Education Consortium, states “If our students are to compete for jobs in the health care field and in technologies of the future, we must offer them experiences that will expose them to the technology and ideas used in the field today.”

According to Dr. Tribble, “This project is a natural extension of our long-standing education programs and will allow for expanded service to South Carolina’s students, teachers, and their communities. There is a need for strengthening genetic literacy as we deal with issues of ethics, technology, personal healthcare decisions, and future employability.”

Additional information for this grant may be found on the NHGRI website at http://projectreporter.nih.gov/reporter_SearchResults.cfm


See Previous News Articles
  • February 2008: GGC Scientist Receives National Recognition
  • September 2007: Center for Treatment of Genetic Disorders Receives State Support
  • September 2007: BlueCross/Blue Shield of SC Foundation Awards Grant to GGC
  • April 2007: Dr. Robert Saul Named to American College of Medical Genetics Board of Directors
  • July 2005: Clemson University - Greenwood Genetic Center sign research initiative: Partners commit $15 million to new facility, scientist education
  • March 2004: Neurological Disorders Breakthrough
  • January 2004:  Schwartz named Director of Research and Head of the JC Self Research Institute of Human Genetics
  • May 2003:  Schwartz receives 2003 Robert Guthrie Award for Advances in Biochemical and Molecular Genetics
  • November 2002: > Schwartz receives Professional Service Award in Research at the annual meeting of the South Carolina Chapter of the Association on Mental Retardation

 

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