(July 7, 2025) – Atlas Sardoo, MSc, PhD, who recently joined the Greenwood Genetic Center (GGC) as a fellow, received the 2025 American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) Foundation Next Generation Fellowship Award. The award will support Sardoo’s Laboratory Genetics and Genomics Fellowship at GGC.
Each year, the ACMG Foundation grants its Next Generation Fellowship awards to promising early career professionals in a range of medical genetics and genomics specialties including Laboratory Genetics and Genomics.
Sardoo, who earned a Master’s degree in bioinformatics from Rowan University, a Master’s degree in biomedical genetics from Brunel University, and a PhD in human medical genetics from Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal, joins GGC from her current role at the National Institutes of Health where she specialized in next generation sequencing and translational research. She will spend the next three years training in GGC’s molecular and cytogenetics laboratories to prepare for a career as a laboratory director.
“I am deeply honored to receive the Next Generation Award,” said Sardoo. “This recognition motivates me to continue advancing my work in clinical genetics and to make meaningful contributions to patient care through genomic research.”
“We are excited to welcome Dr. Sardoo to GGC and are grateful to the ACMG Foundation for awarding her with the Next Generation Fellowship Award,” said Jennifer Lee, PhD, Lead Director of GGC’s Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory. “Dr. Sardoo brings with her a passion for human genetics and genomics including a strong background in transcriptomics and bioinformatics.”
“The recipients of the 2025 ACMG Foundation Next Generation fellowship awards truly exemplify the future of our field. These clinician scientists are the best and the brightest, and are doing work that is making significant impact, moving the field of genomics to the next level. I am indebted to their work ethic and enthusiasm,” said Nancy J. Nancy J. Mendelsohn, MD, FACMG, president of the ACMG Foundation.
GGC’s LGG training program includes intensive education in laboratory technologies, clinical genetics, and diagnostic laboratory management. Since the program began in 1989, 43 fellows and residents have completed the Center’s program and gone on to practice clinical genetics or take leadership roles in genetics laboratories.
About the ACMG Foundation
The ACMG Foundation for Genetic and Genomic Medicine, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is a community of supporters and contributors who understand the importance of medical genetics and genomics in healthcare. Established in 1992, the ACMG Foundation supports the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) mission to “translate genes into health.” Through its work, the ACMG Foundation fosters charitable giving, promotes training opportunities to attract future medical geneticists and genetic counselors to the field, shares information about medical genetics and genomics, and sponsors important research. To learn more and support the ACMG Foundation mission to create “Better Health through Genetics” visit www.acmgfoundation.org.