Carole Ober, PhD
Blum-Riese Professor


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Nathan Schoettler, MD, PhD
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Instructor, Department of Medicine

Genetic and epigenetic responses of human lung resident immune cells to asthma promoting stimuli, and the contributions of these responses to lung-associated phenotypes.

Emma Thompson, PhD
Research Associate Professor

Identifying genes contributing to airway hyperresponsiveness using integrated genetic, genomic, and physiologic approaches in airway smooth muscle cells.

Clayton Rische
Human Genetics

Identifying potential therapeutic targets by analyzing epigenetic changes in the functions and relationships between immune and airway epithelial cells at the interface of allergy, asthma, and pathogenic disease.

Maria Victoria Meneses
Human Genetics

Identifying genetic variants that contribute to common diseases, such as asthma, and studying gene-environment interactions to enhance our understanding of their genetic architecture

Charles Washington
Human Genetics

Identifying asthma risk variants through studies of gene-environment interactions and haplotype analyses

Ethan Zhong
Human Genetics

Using computational approaches to better understand genetic variations relevant to the onset and progression of human diseases, in particular those related to asthma

Oliver Bozhko

Supporting genetic and epigenetic studies of childhood asthma in the lab.

Ellise Kurczewski

Supporting genetic and epigenetic studies of childhood asthma in the lab, and performing functional fine-mapping studies at an asthma locus.

Rebecca Anderson, MS
Genetic Counselor

Program Coordinator for the Asthma and Allergic Disease Clinical Research Center (AADCRC) at UChicago; coordination of Hutterite studies, including carrier screening and reporting of results

Christine Billstrand
Senior Research Staff

Tissue culture and functional genomic studies as part of the Asthma and Allergic Disease Clinical Research Center, and preparation of samples for transcriptional and epigenomic studies

Gong 龚 Qing 清, MS
Biostatistician

Adriana Prichina
Research Specialist

William Wentworth-Sheilds, MS
Senior Programmer