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Study Rundown: Youth with chronic physical conditions have been shown to be at greater risk for developing mental health conditions. However, less is known about the potential mechanisms for increased risk, and few studies have followed incidence over time. In this retrospective cohort study...

Large, survey-based studies are a slow, expensive way to collect rigorous public health data. New research, focusing on alcohol use, shows that mining Twitter and online searches could enable public health professionals to get immediate, localized insights, spot emerging trends, and even measure the...

Alice gave a talk on retrotransposons in human health and disease at Ionis pharmaceuticals in San Diego. Ionis developed an antisense drug, SPINRAZA, for Spinal Muscular Atrophy.

Dachan is a visiting medical school student from Yonsei university college of Medicine in South Korea and interested in uncovering the molecular mechanism of neurological disease using a genomic approach. He will be in the Lee lab till the end of March 2019.

Collecting rigorous public health data through large survey-based studies is a slow, expensive process. New research from Boston Children's Hospital shows that mining people's alcohol-related tweets and online searches offers a more immediate, localized information source to complement traditional...

Alice received a Child Health Research Award from the Charles H. Hood Foundation for her work on transposon insertions in genetic diseases.

Thaise is a visiting PhD student from the Federal University of Sao Paulo in Brazil studying Thyroid cancer genomes. She will stay with us until the end of June 2019. Welcome Thaise!

(Reuters Health) – Children and young adults with chronic conditions like asthma, diabetes, and ADHD may be more likely to develop mental illness than youth who don’t have physical health problems, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers followed more than 48,000 youth without any diagnosed mental health...

Read more here: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/bch-anw120219.php and here: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-12-nimbler-track-alcohol-useby-twit…

We bid farewell to Mario Castro, who supported the Hla Lab administratively for 9 years! Lots of successes during Mario's tenure at both Cornell and BCH/ HMS. Mario is going back to New York to join Pfizer as an Executive Assistant. Bon Voyage Mario and best of luck!