Shawn Fayer wins Cotterman award
“Each September, the editorial board of The American Journal of Human Genetics selects two trainee-authored articles published in AJHG in the previous year that best represent outstanding scientific contributions to the field of human genetics.” https://www.ashg.org/membership/awards/2022-awardees/
PhD student and CMAP member Shawn Fayer (@ShawnFayerGC) was a recipient of this year’s Cotterman Award for his work on the clinical impact of large-scale functional testing of human variants.
“Closing the gap: Systematic integration of multiplexed functional data resolves variants of uncertain significance in BRCA1, TP53, and PTEN” https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(21)00411-0