Jirtle Receives EMGS 2019 Alexander Hollaender Award
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21 September 2019: The Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society (EMGS) Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society (EMGS) honors its first president and Founder, Alexander Hollaender, by conferring the Hollaender Award annually in recognition of outstanding contributions in the application of the principles and techniques of environmental mutagenesis to the protection of human health.
This year, EMGS recognizes Dr. Jirtle's discovery that the environment can influence inheritance of phenotypic traits through epigenetic reprogramming representing one of the most important scientific advances of the 21st century. To quote his nominators: "His pioneering work in epigenetics and genomic imprinting has uncovered a vast territory in which a gene represents less of an inexorable sentence and more of an access point for the environment to modify the genome." And, "Dr. Jirtle's discoveries have produced a far more complete and useful understanding of human development and diseases."
