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
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
Sun Young Kim, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
My research is on characterizing prevalence, specific cancer phenotypes, penetrance, and survival rates of individuals who carry cancer...
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...
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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
Loren DM Pena, MD, PhD
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Gene discovery; utilization of genomic technologies for diagnostics; development of new therapeutic approaches for rare disorders
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...
Brittany N. Simpson, MD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Epigenetic syndromes – disease pathophysiology as well as improving management and treatment for these conditions; prognostic factors related...
Teresa Smolarek, PhD
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Genetic basis of pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM); cancer genetics; clinical cytogenetics
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
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
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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