Faculty
Program Directors
Karen Mohlke, PhD Department of Genetics Leader of the Karen Mohlke Lab: Genetics of Complex Traits and Diseases. Research Expertise: Genetic basis for increased risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia. |
Kari North, PhD Department of Epidemiology & Carolina Center for Genome Studies Leader of the UNC Department of Epidemiology’s CVD Genetic Epidemiology Computational Laboratory. Research Expertise: Genetic epidemiology of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and associated risk factors. |
Training Faculty
Christy Avery, PhD Department of Epidemiology Research Expertise: Genetic and gene-environment effects on cardiovascular disease. |
Jeanette Bensen, PhD Department of Epidemiology Research Expertise: Genetics and genomics in multiethnic populations, biobanking, microRNA. |
Jonathan S. Berg, MD, PhD Department of Genetics Research Expertise: Medical genetics, clinical cancer genetics, and personalized medicine. |
Christopher Bizon Renaissance Computing Institute Research Expertise: Genomic data management and annotation system. |
Cynthia Bulik, PhD, FAED Department of Nutrition Research Expertise: Molecular studies of eating disorders and body weight regulation. |
Stephen Cole, PhD Department of Epidemiology Research Expertise: Study designs and analyses that accurately estimate parameters of central interest to population-health scientists. |
Stephanie Engel, PhD Department of Epidemiology Research Expertise: Genomic and environmental exposures and on preeclampsia. |
Rebecca Fry, PhD Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering Research Expertise: Cancer, child development, environment (water), and global health. |
Penny Gorden-Larsen, PhD Department of Nutrition, Carolina Population Center Research Expertise: Genomics of cardiometabolic traits over the life cycle in minority populations. |
William Adam (Adam) Gower, MD, MS Department of Pediatrics Research Expertise: Asthma, genetics, rare/diffuse/interstitial lung, pediatric flexible bronchoscopy. |
Misa Graff, PhD Department of Epidemiology Research Expertise: Genetic epidemiology, cardiovascular disease, gene-environment interactions, and health disparities. |
Dana B. Hancock, PhD RTI International, Senior Director, GenOmics, Bioinformatics, and Translational Research Center Research Expertise: Human genetics, genetic epidemiology, nicotine dependence and other addictions, and lung function. |
Kathleen Mullan Harris, PhD Department of Sociology Research Expertise: Inequality, Mobility, and Well-being; Measurements and Methods; Population, Health, and Environment; Sexuality, Reproduction, Fertility, and Families. |
Taylor Hargrove, PhD Department of Sociology Research Expertise: Population health, racial/ethnic, gender, and skin tone stratification, aging and the life course. |
Annie Green Howard, PhD Department of Biostatistics Research Expertise: Missing data, longitudinal and correlated data, structural equation models. |
Michael Hudgens, PhD Department of Biostatistics Research Expertise: Collaborative research and statistical methodology development related to studies of infectious diseases. |
Robert Hummer, PhD Department of Sociology Research Expertise: Aging in Diverse Contexts; Inequality, Mobility, and Well-being; Measurements and Methods; Population, Health, and Environment. |
Yuchao Jiang, PhD Department of Genetics and Biostatistics Research Expertise: Statistical modeling, method development and data analysis in |
Samir Kelada, PhD, MPH Department of Genetics, Center for Genome Studies Research Expertise: Gene-environment interactions in asthma, systems genetics, transcriptomics. |
Nigel Key, MD Department of Medicine Research Expertise: Adult hematologist, genetic correlates of blood coagulation disorders. |
Michael Knowles, MD Department of Medicine Research Expertise: Genetic disorders of mucociliary clearance, including gene modifiers of disease phenotype in cystic fibrosis (CF) lung and liver disease, primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD), as well as idiopathic bronchiectasis. |
Michael Kosorok, PhD Department of Biostatistics Research Expertise: Biostatistics, data science, machine learning and precision medicine. |
Craig Lee, Pharm.D, PhD Department of Pharmacy Research Expertise: Genomics of eicosanoid metabolism, inflammation and endothelial dysfunction. |
Yun Li, PhD Department of Genetics & Biostatistics Research Expertise: Hidden Markov models (HMM), genomics, and transcriptomics. |
Danyu Lin, PhD Department of Biostatistics Research Expertise: Statistical genetics, genetic epidemiology, and bioinformatics. |
Jiandong Liu, PhD Department of Pathology & Lab Medicine Research Expertise: Mechanical forces and genetic factors underlying heart morphogenesis. |
Laura Loehr, MD, PhD, MS Department of Medicine and Department of Epidemiology Research Expertise: General internal medicine and cardiovascular epidemiology. |
Stephanie London, MD, Dr.PH NIEHS Epidemiology Branch Research Expertise: Genetics of asthma, pulmonary function, and COPD. |
Michael Love, Dr. rer. nat. Department of Biostatistics Research Expertise: Statistical and computational methods for the analysis of high-throughput sequencing assays to facilitate biomedical and biological research. |
Katie Meyer, ScD Department of Nutrition Research Expertise: Aging, diabetes, genomics, heart disease and stroke, nutrition and physical activity, obesity, public health studies (Design, Conduct and Analysis). |
Andrew Olshan, PhD Department of Epidemiology Research Expertise: Gene and gene-environment interactions in multi-ethnic population. |
Douglas Phanstiel, PhD Department of Cell Biology and Physiology Research Expertise: Rheumatoid arthritis, genome editing, bioinformatics. |
Barry Popkin, PhD Department of Nutrition, Carolina Population Center Research Expertise: Obesity dynamics in the U.S. and low and middle-income countries, including genomic characterization. |
Laura Raffield, PhD Department of Genetics Research Expertise: genetic epidemiology, human genetics, genome-wide association studies, precision medicine, multi-omics, cardiovascular disease, inflammation, hematological traits, Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. |
Daniela Sotres-Alvarez, DrPH Department of Biostatistics Research Expertise: Methods to enable nutrition and physical activity studies, with a focus on Hispanic communities. |
Til Stürmer, MD, PhD Department of Epidemiology Research Expertise: Pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacogenomics of CVD traits. |
Patrick Sullivan, MD, FRANZCP Department of Genetics & Psychiatry, Center for Psychiatric Genomics Research Expertise: Genetic, genomic, and epidemiologic studies of psychiatric and eating disorders, transcriptomics. |
Susan Sumner, PhD Department of Nutrition Research Expertise: Metabolism and metabolomics, broad applications in studies of diet, smoking, cancer, diabetes, obesity, cognitive development, liver disease, natural products, maternal and child health, and the environmental influence of disease. . |
Melissa Troester, PhD Department of Epidemiology Research Expertise: Molecular epidemiology, including transcriptomics and molecular phenotyping. |
Daniel Westreich, PhD Department of Epidemiology Research Expertise: The intersection of HIV with women’s reproductive health. |
Eric Whitsel, MD Department of Epidemiology and Medicine Research Expertise: Genetics and genomics of CVD, including gene-environment interaction. |
Maimoona Zariwala, PhD Marsico Lung Institute Research Expertise: Genetic basis of ciliopathies, with a focus on primary ciliary. dyskinesia. |
Donglin Zeng, PhD Department of Biostatistics Research Expertise: Likelihood-based methods relevant to genetic studies. |
Fei Zou, PhD Department of Biostatistics, Center for Genome Sciences Research Expertise: Statistical genetics and bioinformatics for complex traits, including cystic fibrosis. |