Meet the Team
Meet the Genetics Team
Director
Research Interests
Developmental eye defects; genomics; multiple congenital anomaly syndromes
Faculty
Carrie L. Atzinger, MS, CGC
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Yuriy Baglaenko, PhD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Immunology: understanding dynamic gene regulation in B and T cells; genetics: defining causal variation in autoimmune disorders; genomics: expanding...
Research Interests
Craniofacial development; genetic engineering
Research Interests
Epigenetics; epigenomics; immunology; T cell memory
Alyce Belonis, MD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Cardiovascular genetics
Research Interests
Human genetics, genomics
Benjamin Cocanougher, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Receptor biology; therapy development for rare disorders
Olivia D'Annibale, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Mass spectrometry method development
Laura Galganski, MD, MAS
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Surgery
Research Interests
Fetal gene and cellular therapies; fetal surgery; fetal repair of myelomeningocele
Qiaoning Guan, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Fabry disease; Robin sequence; 22q11 deletion; neurofibromatosis; craniofacial genetics; chromosomal anomalies
Research Interests
Focus on inborn errors of metabolism, with an emphasis on long term outcome in PKU and in the molecular biology of galactosemia
Research Interests
Statistical genetics; genetics of heart malformations; pharmacogenetics; genetics of allergic disorders
Research Interests
Evaluating family health history as a health promotion and disease prevention tool; direct-to-consumer marketing of genetic testing; and outcomes...
Research Interests
Dr. Nichols investigates the genetic susceptibility of pulmonary arterial hypertension. His lab was instrumental in identifying the first gene...
Research Interests
Lipid arbitrated autoantibodies, complement activation products, and cytokines comebacks in several lysosomal storage and rare genetic diseases.
Michael W. Pauciulo, MBA
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Biobanking; biorepository projects; pulmonary arterial hypertension
Research Interests
Genetic etiologies and natural histories of craniofacial disorders and new syndrome delineation
Elizabeth K. Schorry, MD
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
History of bone complications of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1); learning and behavioral problems in NF1; and drug trials for plexiform...
Research Interests
Molecular pathogenesis and therapy of lysosomal storage diseases; glycosphingolipids metabolism; neurodegeneration.
K. Nicole Weaver, MD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Craniofacial malformations
Research Interests
Gene regulation Bioinformatics Functional Genomics
Research Interests
Human genomics; biomedical informatics; data science
Yaning Wu, MD, PhD, FACMG
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Germ/stem cell biology; RNA systems biology in the maintenance of spermatogonial stem cells
Wenying Zhang, MD, PhD, MBA, FACMG
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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