By Noushig Ghazarian Nalpatian Armenian medieval music inspired by poems written by medieval priest Mkritich Naghash has been brought to life at Bourgie Hall of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. American Armenian composer John Hodian, the creator and composer of the Naghash Ensemble, together with his classical musicians have made their first Canadian debut
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March 9, 2021
Dr. Wayne Grody (left), MD, PhD, professor in the departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Pediatrics and Human Genetics at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and Salpy Akaragian (right), PhD, RN, director emeritus, UCLA Health. (Photos provided by Drs. Grody and Akaragian.)
In 2020, The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA provided a seed grant to the Armenia Medical Genomics Project to sequence and interpret DNA samples collected from Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh.
“Studying very ancient populations that have not interbred with others is also valuable in human genetics…Unfortunately, because Armenia is such a small country, it has been ignored by human geneticists up until now.” Dr. Wayne Grody