Date:
11/10/2014
posted on November 10, 2014
Professor Harry Orr, an MSI Principal Investigator from the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology (Medical School) has been elected to the National Academies’ Institute of Medicine. Election to the IOM is one of the highest honors in the field of health and medicine.
Professor Orr’s research is involved with the genetics of human immunity and neurodegenerative diseases. He has been using MSI’s next-generation sequencing tools for genetic studies of spinocerebellar ataxia type 1, a condition that affects movement and can involve other problems.
You can read more about Professor Orr’s work and this award on the U's Health Sciences website.