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April 20, 2018

Yale announces new head of Center for Genomic Health

cooldesign | FreeDigitalPhotos.net Yale's Center for Genomic Health has a new head
By Christopher Hoffman

Dr. Michael F. Murray, a renowned expert in genetic medicine, will be the new head of the Center for Genomic Health at Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Hospital.

The medical school and the hospital announced Murray’s appointment this week.

“We are very happy to welcome Dr. Murray to our institution and excited about the collaboration with Yale New Haven Hospital to move genetic research forward,” said Dr. Robert J. Alpern, dean of the medical school. “(Yale medical school) has been a pioneer in genetics since establishing the first department of genetics in a U.S. medical school in 1972.”

Yale’s Center of Genomic Health is at the cutting edge of research into the use of genetic information in health care. Researchers are working to tailor drugs and treatments to a patient’s genetic profile. 

Murray is coming to Yale from Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania, where he is director of clinic genomics at the Genomic Medicine Institute and teaches at the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. He also served as the clinical chief of genetics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and co-chairs a National Academy of Medicine workgroup on certain aspects of genomic screening.

As head of the center, Murray will oversee a repository that collects DNA from certain patients with their permission and catalogues it. The goal is to create a database that researchers can use to match genetic information with medical histories, leading to new insights and treatments.

“Access to data like this will be a game changer,” Murray said. “As this project progresses, researchers will be able to study very specific cohorts of patients in order to find new risk factors and potentially new treatments based on the changes in DNA that link to medical history.”

Christopher Hoffman can be reached at news@newhavenbiz.com

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