Human & Statistical Genetics

Rebecca Aft, MD, PhD

Isolation and characterization of cancer-related genes

Tarek Alhamad, MD, MS, FACP, FASN

simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplantation, donation after cardiac death, immunosuppression minimization.

Laura Jean Bierut, MD

Smoking behavior, substance dependence, genetically informed clinical care

Joseph Bloom, PhD

Nicotine dependence, drug metabolism, human genetics

Ryan Bogdan, PhD

How genetic variation and environmental experience contribute to individual differences in brain function, behavior, and psychopathology

Kelly L. Bolton, PhD, MD

The interplay between inherited genetic variation, environmental factors, and acquired mutations in shaping the earliest stages of carcinogenesis

Li-Shiun Chen, MD, MPH, ScD

Personalized medicine/Pharmacogenetics, smoking cessation treatments, cross-population studies of smoking, gene-environmental interactions, and longitudinal studies

F. Sessions Cole, MD

Functional genomics, bioinformatics, pulmonary surfactant, lung development

Megan A. Cooper, MD, PhD

NK cells, interferon gamma IFN-y, autoimmunity, STAT3, immunology, pediatric

Sharon Cresci, MD

Cardiovascular disease, diabetes melitus, genotype, genetic variation

Carlos Cruchaga, PhD

Alzheimer’s diseases, Parkinson’s disease, genetics, genomics, single-cell sequencing, transcriptomics, proteomics, whole-genome sequencing

Joseph D. Dougherty, PhD

Autism, gene expression profiling, genetics, genomics, mouse models, neurobiology

Susan K. Dutcher, PhD

Signal transduction, centrioles, cilia, human ciliopathies

John R. Edwards, PhD

Bioinformatics, cancer, cancer genomics, epigenetics, epigenomics, transcriptional regulation

Obi L. Griffith, PhD

Bioinformatics, clinical statistics, machine learning, biomarkers, cancer, sequencing, software, databases, genomics, personalized medicine

Gabriel Haller, PhD

Genetic underpinnings of multiple neurological/neurosurgical disorders

Michael Hughes, PhD

Our laboratory uses functional genomics to understand tissue specific gene expression in circadian rhythms, skeletal muscle, and lung disease

Christopher Maher, PhD

Non-coding RNAs, lncRNAs, cancer genomics, transcriptome, bioinformatics, computational biology, epigenetics, cancer

Muhammad Faraz Masood, MD

Endocarditis, heart failure, surgery, medicine, clinical

Chia-Ling Phuah, MD, MMSc

understanding the pathophysiology of cerebrovascular disease by leveraging big data approaches

Alex Ramsey, PhD

substance use disorder, cancer, organizational behavior

Matthew J. Silva, PhD

Bone mechanics, bone biology, injury, mechanotransduction, mouse models, osteoporosis

Nathan Stitziel, MD, PhD

We try understand the inherited basis underlying cardiovascular disease and leverage insights from our work to improve patient care

Cristina de Guzman Strong, PhD

Epigenetics, genetics, genomics, chromatin, enhancer, skin, transcriptional regulation, disease, translational research

Ting Wang, PhD

DNA methylation, transposable elements, epigenomics, evolution, genomics, systems biology

Mark A. Watson, MD, PhD

Cancer, functional genomics, gene expression, pathogenesis, breast cancer