Joan Fujimura

Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Email:
fujimura@ssc.wisc.edu

Fujimura leads an interdisciplinary team based at UW-Madison in the collection and analysis of data from five research sites that use or develop human genetic variation categories. The goal of the project is to examine where, when, and how group categories are used in genomics. They explore whether, and if so how, these group categories overlap with social race categories. These sites recruit human subjects for DNA studies, genotype DNA samples, and analyze the samples for disease risk, for response to medication, or for studies of genetic variation.

Fujimura also leads a second interdisciplinary team based at UW-Madison in the collection and analysis of data on interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation in the conduct of life sciences research and its impact on the development of knowledge in biology and medicine.

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