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

Bella Allen
Human Genetics

My research focuses on the Childhood Allergy and NeOnatal Environment (CANOE) cohort, a birth cohort designed to investigate how early-life environmental exposures contribute to the development of childhood asthma and allergic disease. Using multi-omics approaches, including DNA methylation and transcriptomic profiling, I study how prenatal and early-life factors shape immune and respiratory health trajectories across childhood

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.

Claire Meyer

Analysis of DNA methylation signatures in nasal epithelial cells to identify asthma endotypes and mechanisms of asthma onset.

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