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December 6, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

(Mis)fortunes of The Genome: Good and Bad Genes for Your Heart

Featured Speaker: Nathan Stitziel, M.D. Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine and Genetics; Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Genetics, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine

Washington University cardiologist and human geneticist Nathan Stitziel studies the inherited basis of cardiovascular disease. Learn more about how DNA changes can confer risk or protection from heart attacks and how studying DNA can lead to new drugs for preventing disease.

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Date:
December 6, 2018
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Cost:
Free
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Venue

St. Louis County Library Headquarters
1640 S Lindbergh Blvd.
Saint Louis, MO 63131 United States + Google Map

Organizer

Academy of Science St. Louis
Phone:
(314) 533-8586
Email:
cnoe@academyofsciencestl.org
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