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Dr. Georgia Dunston is
the founding director of the National Human Genome
Center (NHGC) at Howard University located in
Washington, D.C. Dr. Georgia Dunston has spent most of
her life pursuing answers to this single question, “Why
are people different”? At NHGC, she raised funds to
build labs and recruit other investigators to head
various genetic research departments focusing on African
Americans, Africans, and other African diaspora
populations.
Dr. Dunston received her undergraduate degree in biology
from Norfolk State University, Virginia. It was at this
point that she rose against improbable odds to earn a
Ph.D in human genetics at the University of Michigan —
the first black student in that department. Shortly
there after, she was hired in the microbiology
department at Howard University, one of the world’s
premier black colleges, and was asked immediately to
join its new Microbiology Research Center. She went on
to become Chair of that department. While working at the
research center, she taught and performed post-doctoral
research at the National Institutes of Health,
Washington, D.C.
Meanwhile, she contributed to the Human Genome Project
via separate grants that allowed her to pursue African
and African-American genetics. Eventually her work
resulted in the founding of the National Human Genome
Center at Howard University, which today she continues
to head.
Dr. Dunston has received numerous awards and honors,
including Howard University, College of Medicine Student
Council, Excellence in Teaching Award, 1978; New
Millennium Foundation, Excellence in Technology Award,
2001; International Black Women's Congress, Oni Award,
2001; NAACP Science Achievement Award, Montgomery County
Chapter, 1990; AARP Magazine, Impact Award, 2004.
The SEPA project is supported by Grant Number # 5 R25 RR
020405-02 from the National Center for Research
Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes
of Health (NIH) and "Its contents are solely the
responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily
represent the official views of NCRR or NIH."
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