Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine have received two postdoctoral Institutional Training Grants for genomic science from the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health. 

The awards, known as T32 grants, help to support training of pre- and postdoctoral fellows in basic, clinical and behavioral research. Penn is the first institution to have more than one training grant from the Institute.

One award will support the Penn Postdoctoral Training Program in the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Genetics and Genomics, led by Steven Joffe, the Emanuel & Robert Hart Professor of Medical Ethics & Health Policy.

The program’s two components are didactic training in conceptual bioethics, empirical methods and genetic science; and mentored original research that will lead to empirical and conceptual scholarly publications.

The second award will support a post-doc training program in genomic medicine focused on translational medicine and informatics. The program will be led by Jason Moore, the Edward Rose and Elizabeth Kirk Rose Professor of Informatics and director of the Penn Institute for Biomedical Informatics; and Katherine Nathanson, deputy director of the Abramson Cancer Center, and will serve MD and PhD fellows at Penn and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Penn was previously awarded a T32 grant for a program focused on computational genomics and led by Junhyong Kim, professor of biology and co-director of the Penn Genome Frontiers Institute; and Maja Bucan, professor of genetics.