Thinktank


Interdisciplinary teams focus on the advancement of future disease diagnosis through research and advocacy (i.e., ThinkTanks) in the following ways:

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White papers, academic papers, and reports to shape national policy and dialogue

Leveraging the strengths of Emory and its partner institutions, we advance diagnostic research by exploring how decentralization of disease diagnosis will affect society as a whole.

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Cross disciplinary collaborations to create community projects to ensure diagnostic social justice and health equity

As innovations in diagnostic testing move into the community, the patients who need them the most will have access to them.

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Funding of student and trainee fellowships

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In-kind diagnostic services for faculty

Wilbur Lam

"ThinkTank is a community of our own scientists, researchers, physicians, and people within the community all thinking of how to tackle these problems on the front end."
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