Elizabeth Bhoj, MD PhD

Assistant Professor at UPenn and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in Pediatrics and Human Genetics - also a mom, voracious reader and consumer of chai!

[Emily Lubin, PhD @EmilyLubin_]

@LayoDana has done so much to mentor & uplift trainees in the @EBhoj Lab @CHOP_Research, all while doing exceptional research. Excited to support & celebrate Team Dana & the work of the @Eagles Autism Foundation for families in Philadelphia and beyond

[Elizabeth Bhoj, MD PhD @EBhoj]

So thrilled to be part of this exceptional network with best nextdoor collaborator ever @AhrensNicklas!! Thanks @cziscience for the opportunity!

[biohub @biohub]

We’re excited to support 16 interdisciplinary teams as part of our second phase of @ChanZuckerberg’s #NDChallengeNetwork Collaborative Pairs to help us better understand the fundamental biology of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s https://t.co/XTeIDWU87t

[Elizabeth Bhoj, MD PhD @EBhoj]

@EmilyLubin_ Gave an amazing talk on histone rare syndrome discovery to a VERY full house @GeneticsSociety in LA, Congrats Emily!!

[Jessica Chong @jxchong]

Tara Wenger: conventional clinical workflow would miss 42% of infants who received SeqFirst WGS diagnosis! 16 never considered for clinical genetics consult. “No consult” group disproportionally non-white. #ASHG22

[Elizabeth Bhoj, MD PhD @EBhoj]

@tbckfoundation researchers @drxilma @gbdownes @rifferolls @DemilyDurham @AbdiasRosado1 @EmilyLubin_ What an amazing group!

[tbckfoundation @tbckfoundation]

@gbdownes was recently featured on Story Collider sharing how his incredible story brought him to TBCK research. a must listen! https://t.co/SpJ8Hl5iRG

[Elizabeth Bhoj, MD PhD @EBhoj]

Great talk @gbdownes on zebrafish as a model of TBCK! Thanks @tbckfoundation for a fantastic weekend meeting! @drxilma

[Elizabeth Bhoj, MD PhD @EBhoj]

@CHOP_Research @ChildrensPhila @tbckfoundation So excited to host these amazing patients and their families with @drxilma @gbdownes!!

[Elizabeth Bhoj, MD PhD @EBhoj]

I’m on a 890 days Spanish learning streak and can’t stop 🔥 Want to join me on Duolingo?

[Briana Christophers, PhD @BriChristophers]

The @A_P_S_A Virtual Summer Research Program story

2020
1️⃣undergrad +
7️⃣MD/DO-PhD trainees took
2️⃣ wks to plan a
4️⃣ wk virtual program for
156 URM undergrads bc
80% had program canceled bc COVID

2021
72% still doing research,
23% w VSRP mentor

Full 📖 @ https://t.co/iIBQooOdM2

[Society for Developmental Biology @SocDevBio]

📢📢Meeting registration and abstract submission are open for the 12th Structural Birth Defects Meeting being held October 18-20, 2022 at the Hilton Washington DC/Rockville! Abstract submission deadline is August 31. https://t.co/NBZnnU3ETU #12thSBD #structuralbirthdefects

[CHOP Research @CHOP_Research]

Congratulations to Drs. Elizabeth Bhoj and David Hill who each received a 2021 Individual Biomedical Research Award from The Hartwell Foundation, which provides early-stage funding for biomedical research that can benefit children.
https://t.co/ej6J6TMdfA

[biohub @biohub]

At today’s #NDChallengeNetwork panel, patients & clinicians spoke about the #neurodegenerative #RareDisease Multiple Sulfatase Deficiency (MSD).
Read more about how researchers Rebecca + Elizabeth work to better understand MSD and other diseases ⤵️ https://t.co/aWqSfpWK4T

[Michael Granovetter, MD PhD @mgranovetter]

.@A_P_S_A's Virtual Summer Research Program pairs undergrads from backgrounds underrepresented in STEM with mentors to work on a virtual summer research project. Want to volunteer to mentor a student? Sign up here: https://t.co/Pd1BVXFtsS

Please share with your labs/departments!

[James Fasham @JamesFasham]

😊Now in print 📖

Think of it for CHD/Myopia/frontonasal dysplasia
- Make sure to echo and check for myopic retinopathy

Thanks to @adam_jackson89 @EBhoj @GeneDx @ghoshonthemove @GW4_CAT @LupskiLab @poseypod @RDExeter @smbanka @zcoban

#Cleft #RareDiseases #ResearchAtExeter

[LTBGS@Penn @LTBGS_Penn]

BEYOND #hyped to announce our next speaker for the Queer in STEMinar Series - Dr. Drivas!! @TDrivas is an MD/PhD and instructor of medicine for the division of translational medicine and human genetics here at Penn. DM us for the zoom link to join on Monday, March 14th @5pm

[Amy Salovin @ASalovin]

Great to hear from @EBhoj in this month's Faculty Spotlight 👏

[Research Trainee Affairs at Penn Medicine @RTAatPennMed]

Reminder 📍 The deadline to apply for the Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program (PennPREP) is Tues., 3/1 by 11:59 pm EST. See here for more info: https://t.co/uIw9bz8mB6

[Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas @AhrensNicklas]

We are recruiting again! Looking for post-docs passionate about improving outcomes for kids with rare inherited metabolic disorders. Come join our great group at Penn/CHOP!! #RareDisease #Genetics #Metabolism
https://t.co/vBRUNmqQeH

[Elizabeth Bhoj, MD PhD @EBhoj]

Our newest lab member - her first first-author paper was accepted before she even officially joined the lab! So excited to see where her thesis work takes her :)

[Emily Lubin, PhD @EmilyLubin_]

Thrilled to share my first first author project! We used #publiclyavailable #gnomAD constraint metrics and #GTEx expression data to predict 5 #histone-encoding disease candidate genes that have the potential to underly rare Mendelian conditions - https://t.co/iIdLMilr1T