During the 2011 ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, the ACMG Foundation hosted a very special, first-annual Day of Caring on Saturday, March 19, at 10:00 AM in the Vancouver Convention Centre Exhibit Hall, where children with the Rare Disease Foundation in Vancouver received donated bicycles sponsored by genetics professionals from around the world.

For more information on becoming a corporate sponsor of the Day of Caring  click here.

ACMG Foundation Summer Genetics Scholars 2.0
 

The 2012 Summer Genetics Scholars Program is well underway for the new year. The following ten institutions were selected, at random, as the initial participants for the 2012 Program and are in the process of identifying one student each as the scholar for their institution:

Children's National Medical Center, DC

Emory University, Atlanta

Tufts University, Boston

Tulane University, New Orleans

University of Alabama, Birmingham

University of California, Los Angeles

University of Maryland, Baltimore

University of Miami

University of Pittsburgh

University of Washington, Seattle

Help support the future of medical genetics and genomics. Join others in donating to the Summer Genetics Scholars Program so that other institutions and students can participate. Send your tax-decutible donations to J. David Cotter, Director of Development, at dcotter@acmgfoundation.org.

For more information about the Summer Genetics Scholars Program, click here or contact Barry Thompson, MD, MS, FACMG at bthompson@acmg.net.