Carole Ober, PhD
Blum-Riese Professor


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Emma Thompson, PhD
Research Associate Professor

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

Marcus Soliai, PhD
Staff Scientist

Clayton Rische, PhD
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

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

Monica Gould

Colocalization studies between molecular QTLs in nasal mucosal cells and asthma and allergic disease GWAS SNPs.

Lauren Moskal

Rebecca Sias

Analysis of gene expression and DNA methylation data from airway smooth muscle cells exposed to asthma-associated cytokines.

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

Adriana Prichina
Research Specialist

Catherine Stanhope, MS
Biostatistician

Statistical Genetics

William Wentworth-Sheilds, MS
Senior Programmer