Posted 9 December 2011 ISPD Founding President, Joe Leigh Simpson, MD, has been named senior vice president for Research and Global Programs at the March of Dimes Foundation. He will assume his new role leading the Foundation's grant-making programs on 2 January 2012. Read the full press release.
Posted 24 October 2011 ISPD has issued the following rapid response statement. This is the first of what the ISPD Board of Directors intend to be a series of statements issued in response to ‘hot’ topics in the news. The statement was produced by the same committee that wrote the ISPD Position Statement on Aneuploidy Screening. Prenatal Detection of Down Syndrome using Massively Parallel Sequencing (MPS): a rapid response statement from a committee on behalf of the Board of the International Society for Prenatal Diagnosis, 24 October 2011