2016 Curt Stern Award Address: From Rare to Common Diseases: Translating Genetic Discovery to Therapy

Abstract

Receiving the Curt Stern Award and being introduced by my mentor, colleague, and friend Art Beaudet are the greatest honors I could imagine. I attended my first ASHG meeting in 1991, and ASHG is the scientific community in which I grew up. I remember the excitement of discovery at my first meeting because I was a graduate student hot on the trail of cloning the gene for Marfan syndrome, so it is so apt that our ASHG president this year is Hal Dietz, someone whom I have known and admired since that time because of our shared origins in Marfan syndrome.