Nancy J Cox

Quantitative human geneticist, mom to two daughters and hundreds of trainees, loves family, science, biobanks, & Nashville music. Tweets represent my own views

[Nancy J Cox @NancyGenetics]

@VUMCgenetics This is going to be a fantastic project and really excited about working on it. Prospective post-docs can also contact any of us directly!

[Nancy J Cox @NancyGenetics]

So excited to be passing the baton to such a thoughtful physician scientist engaged in both creating important new discoveries and in translating discovery for improving human health! We have such terrific young people deserving of leadership roles — GO ALEX!

[Alex Bick @AlexBickMDPhD]

I am honored and thrilled to take on the role of Division Director for Genetic Medicine @VUMC_Medicine! As a junior faculty member, I benefited tremendously from mentorship and support from @NancyGenetics. I look forward to paying it forward @VUMCgenetics!

[Nancy J Cox @NancyGenetics]

Indeed! So much important research is being done with the GWAS catalog — pleiotropy, genetics in diverse populations, investigation of signatures of natural selection overlapping GWAS hits — being able to include cancer biology is critical.

[Inês Barroso @InesBarroso4]

@DrP_stuff @GWASCatalog @NancyGenetics @morestrada @irahall9 @Ruthmarch @genomedotgov @targetvalidate Always fun to see the progress made and participate in discussions about the future efforts of this great resource.
A consensus from today is that we’d really value more #SumStats from our cancer colleagues !

[Hae Kyung Im 任慧耕 임혜경 @hakyim]

Congratulations 🎉

[Nancy J Cox @NancyGenetics]

So true! The one common certainty of senior women in science is that they “didn’t do it the right way” — they each did it a different right way for them!

[Jen Heemstra @jenheemstra]

There is no one “right” career path. There is only *your* career path. And, if you’re like me, there will be times that it doesn’t even look like a path or it’s not taking you where you want to go. But, there is always another turn waiting ahead.

[Nancy J Cox @NancyGenetics]

This has been one of the most fun and exciting projects to think about and work on from conception. Kudos to Doug and his team — fantastic work with terrific downstream utility!

[Douglas Ruderfer @DMRuderfer]

Excited to share new preprint "Phenotypic signatures in clinical data enable systematic identification of patients for genetic testing" led by @MorleyTheodore and with @NancyGenetics @lisa_bastarache @lhan111 @jonmorra8 https://t.co/XeWXHDTqdf

[Nancy J Cox @NancyGenetics]

Josee Dupuis — super mentor, super scientist, super leader. Congratulations on terrific award!

[Cecilia Lindgren @ceclindgren]

ASHG Honors Josée Dupuis, PhD with the 2020 Mentorship Award - ASHG - wonderfully well deserved ⁦@ProfJoseeDupuis⁩ congratulations 🍀🤗⭐️ https://t.co/17jDWF3R4g

[Nancy J Cox @NancyGenetics]

Advocacy is hard work, but Dr. Jeff has always made it look easy because of her passion — thanks from the entire community!

[Eimear Kenny @EimearEKenny]

Dr. Janina Jeff @inthosegenespod - the recipient of the 2020 ASHG Advocacy Award - has been at the forefront of advocacy at the intersect of genomics and black voices in science and society for many years. Well deserved!!!

We are cheering from @SinaiGenHealth Janina!!!

👏🧬🌟

[Nancy J Cox @NancyGenetics]

Ken Lange is a treasure for the entire genetics community! Such an impact in our field with his research, his books and his many outstanding trainees!

[John Novembre @jnovembre]

Wonderful to see this. Ken was a great mentor as I started at UCLA: ASHG Honors Kenneth Lange, PhD with the 2020 Arno Motulsky-Barton Childs Award for Excellence in Human Genetics Education https://t.co/QMJViIAFQW

[Nancy J Cox @NancyGenetics]

Well-deserved award and so proud to be a collaborator!

[Fowzan S Alkuraya @alkuraya]

Totally honored to be named the 2020 Curt Stern Award winner by the @ASHG. Being the first non-US based winner in the 20yrs history of this prestigious award only adds to the honor. Very grateful to @ASHG, the Awards Committee and those who supported my nomination.

[Nancy J Cox @NancyGenetics]

So happy and excited to see Ben achieve this award!

[Paul de Bakker @Piwdb]

Congrats Ben. So well deserved....! Now you can buy me a beer next time I’m in town.

[Nancy J Cox @NancyGenetics]

So love to see important new work in transcriptome genetics in African Americans. Congratulations to Team Perera!

[Dr. Minoli Perera @MinoliPereraPgx]

The richness of the African Ancestry genome is truly amazing. Our newest paper on discoveries in African American Hepatocytes! Great work @Yizhen81426083. @NUFeinbergMed #PLOSGenetics: Discovery of novel hepatocyte eQTLs in African Americans https://t.co/dJGoWoOKA4

[Nancy J Cox @NancyGenetics]

Grateful I can be busy at home, so I don’t worry even more than usual. But for others also this lucky, remember not all of our loved ones share this luck. Reach out even more than usual, to family members and others who cannot work from home. #newtraditions2020

[Nancy J Cox @NancyGenetics]

@genetix22 Heather, that this is richly deserved in no way diminishes the thrill of seeing it happen! Congratulations and can’t wait until we can celebrate in person!

[Nancy J Cox @NancyGenetics]

@michaelhoffman @hoffsbeefs @nickomatics May we learn enough biology and discover the right therapies to substantially reduce prediction from today’s PRS #ASHG2019

[Nancy J Cox @NancyGenetics]

@michaelhoffman @hoffsbeefs @nickomatics Love Heisenberg’s polygenic risk score! PRS have to be thought of as dynamic not static. As we learn biology for polygenic disease, prediction based on old data will decline.

[Nancy J Cox @NancyGenetics]

Having a blast @UCLA_CGSI — amazing science, enthusiastic young people, and (if you enjoyed my Old Fashioneds at the picnic) dancing under the stars to Chaka Khan at the Hollywood Bowl!

[Nancy J Cox @NancyGenetics]

Day 4 #FemStarScience I salute
Jane Ferguson
Megan Shuey
Tyne Miller
@MarthaDudek
@gillianhoo

And challenge the terrific @AnnaGreka (young but senior) to name each day for 1 week 5 rising female stars in science and challenge 1 senior woman

[Nancy J Cox @NancyGenetics]

Day 3 of my #FemStarScience challenge and celebrate

@CrunchyNeuroSci Reyna Gordon
@MNiarchou Maria Niarchou
Qiping Feng
@SelFdz Selene Fernandez
Cassianne Robinson-Cohen

And challenge @Anna_DiRienzo to name each day for 1 week 5 rising female stars and challenge 1 senior woman

[Nancy J Cox @NancyGenetics]

@SarahTishkoff @casey6r0wn Great job Penn — @casey6r0wn is an outstanding scientist! And congratulations to @casey6r0wn — so much fun to watch your science unfold!