Moderator Carl Zimmer of The New York Times, and panelists Cece Moore, DNA consultant for the PBS Series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Yaniv Erlich, PHD, New York Genome Center and Columbia University, and Karl Skorecki, MD, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology are seen at the Jewish Genomics Evening, Heritage to Health, event at the New York Genome Center on Thursday, November 19, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Brian Ach for the New York Genome Center)
Panelist Nathan Pearson, PHD, The New York Genome Center, special guests Alisa Robbins Doctoroff, UJA-Federation of New York, Jill Sobule, singer-writer, AJ Jacobs, journalist and author, and panelists Yaniv Erlich, PHD, New York Genome Center and Columbia University, Karl Skorecki, MD, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and Cece Moore, DNA consultant for the PBS Series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., are seen at the Jewish Genomics Evening, Heritage to Health, event at the New York Genome Center on Thursday, November 19, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Brian Ach for the New York Genome Center/AP)
A capacity crowd is seen at the Jewish Genomics Evening, Heritage to Health, event at the New York Genome Center on Wednesday, November 19, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Brian Ach for the New York Genome Center/AP)
Panelists Yaniv Erlich, PHD, New York Genome Center and Columbia University, Cece Moore, DNA consultant for the PBS Series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Karl Skorecki, MD, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, moderator Carl Zimmer, The New York Times, special guests Alisa Robbins Doctoroff, UJA-Federation of New York, Jill Sobule, singer-writer, and AJ Jacobs, journalist and author, are seen at the Jewish Genomics Evening, Heritage to Health, event at the New York Genome Center on Thursday, November 19, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Brian Ach for the New York Genome Center/AP)
About the New York Genome Center
The New York Genome Center (NYGC) is an independent, nonprofit at the forefront of transforming biomedical research and clinical care with the mission of saving lives. As a consortium of renowned academic, medical and industry leaders across the globe, NYGC focuses on translating genomic research into clinical solutions for serious disease. Our member organizations and partners are united in this unprecedented collaboration of technology, science, and medicine. We harness the power of innovation and discoveries to improve people’s lives — ethically, equitably, and urgently. Member institutions include: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, American Museum of Natural History, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Columbia University, Cornell University/Weill Cornell Medical College, Hospital for Special Surgery, The Jackson Laboratory, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York- Presbyterian Hospital, The New York Stem Cell Foundation, New York University, North Shore-LIJ, The Rockefeller University, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Stony Brook University and IBM.
