GEORGIA M. DUNSTON, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair othe Department of Microbiology, Howard
University College of Medicine, and founding director of the newly formed National Human Genome Center
(NHGC) at Howard University. Her research on human genome variation in disease susceptibility has been
the vanguard of current efforts at Howard University to build national and international research collaborations
focusing on the genetics of diseases common in African Americans and other African Diaspora populations.
Dr. Dunston is program director of the coordinating center for the Africa America Diabetes Mellitus Study, an international collaboration to study the genetics of type 2 diabetes in ancestral populations of African Americans, and the coordinating center for the African American Hereditary Prostate Cancer Study Network, a national cooperative formed to map and characterize genes for prostate cancer in African Americans. The NHGC is instrumental in bringing multicultural perspectives and resources to an understanding of knowledge
gained from the Human Genome Project and research on human genome variation.


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