{"id":5683,"date":"2024-06-14T00:54:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T00:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/ninds-genetic-strategies\/?p=5683"},"modified":"2024-06-14T19:19:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T19:19:11","slug":"lal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/ninds-genetic-strategies\/2024\/06\/14\/lal\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Lal, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-5710\" src=\"http:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/ninds-genetic-strategies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/91\/2024\/06\/Dennis-Lal.png\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/ninds-genetic-strategies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/91\/2024\/06\/Dennis-Lal.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27300%27%20height%3D%27300%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20300%20300%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27300%27%20height%3D%27300%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/ninds-genetic-strategies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/91\/2024\/06\/Dennis-Lal-66x66.png 66w, https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/ninds-genetic-strategies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/91\/2024\/06\/Dennis-Lal-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/ninds-genetic-strategies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/91\/2024\/06\/Dennis-Lal-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/ninds-genetic-strategies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/91\/2024\/06\/Dennis-Lal.png 300w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Dennis Lal, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Neurogenetics at UTHealth Houston, is a distinguished researcher and educator in genetics and clinical neurogenetics. He earned his B.Sc. in Biochemistry, M.Sc. in Genetics, and Ph.D. in Neurogenetics from the University of Cologne, followed by postdoctoral training in quantitative epilepsy genetics at the Broad Institute of Harvard, MIT, and Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Lal&#8217;s research focuses on understanding genetic contributions to brain disorders, developing disease prognoses, and improving genetic variant interpretation. He has published extensively in prestigious journals and has led bioinformatic analysis groups in major epilepsy genomic research projects. He actively participates in large-scale genomics consortia, advises several rare genetic epilepsy family foundations, and has created educational initiatives to train neurologists in genetics and precision medicine. At UTHealth Houston, Dr. Lal continues his research and promotes the clinical application of genetic tests to advance gene-informed precision medicine clinical trials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Dennis Lal, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Neurogenetics at UTHealth Houston, is a distinguished researcher and educator in genetics and clinical neurogenetics. He earned his B.Sc. in Biochemistry, M.Sc. in Genetics, and Ph.D. in Neurogenetics from the University of Cologne, followed by postdoctoral training in quantitative epilepsy genetics at the Broad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/ninds-genetic-strategies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/ninds-genetic-strategies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/ninds-genetic-strategies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/ninds-genetic-strategies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/ninds-genetic-strategies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/ninds-genetic-strategies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5711,"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/ninds-genetic-strategies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683\/revisions\/5711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/ninds-genetic-strategies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/ninds-genetic-strategies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/ninds-genetic-strategies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/ninds-genetic-strategies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}