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ACMG Foundation for Genetic and Genomic Medicine: Robert Best

Aug 17, 2020

The ACMG Foundation for Genetic and Genomic Medicine has appointed Robert Best to its board of directors. Best currently serves as professor of biomedical sciences at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville. In addition, Best serves as director of the clinical laboratories and prenatal screening and the division of genetics and molecular medicine in the obstetrics and gynecology department at USC's School of Medicine. 

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