Meet Our President: Barbara DuPont, PhD

Dr. DuPont is board certified by the American Board of Medical Genetics (1996) in clinical cytogenetics. She is a member of the American Society of Human Genetics, and a fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics. She is also a reviewer for a number of scientific journals including American Journal of Medical Genetics and Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics. She received her Ph.D. in Zoology/Human Genetics from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1989.

Her major areas of research interest include subtelomere rearrangements, phenotype/genotype mapping of chromosome rearrangements and deletion syndromes, the mechanisms of chromosome rearrangements, as well as, chromosome alterations in cancer. She joined the Greenwood Genetic Center in 1999 and became the Senior Director of the Cytogentics Laboratory in 2013.

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