Juan Rodriguez, a PhD student in the James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies studying Genetics and Molecular Biology, has won the Kharen Fulton Diversity Graduate Award for 2021.
Emory University ranked 20th out of 796 U.S. universities according to the 2022 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings, published Sept. 21.
Emory University researchers, in an international collaboration with the Trisomy 21 Research Society (T21RS), have found increased COVID-19 mortality among those with Down syndrome compared to the general population.
Supported by a $8 million, five-year grant, an Emory-led team of scientists plans to investigate new therapeutic approaches to fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited intellectual disability and a major single-gene cause of autism.