
Program alumni
Trainee | Mentor(s) | Years Funded |
Topic of Research Project | Current Position |
Emily Blauel, MD | Maris, John /
Diskin, Sharon |
2018-2020 | Discovering the genetic basis of neuroblastoma initiation and progression | Instructor, Division of Oncology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia |
Jason Miller, PhD | Ritchie, Marylyn | 2018-2020 | Characterizing the genetic underpinnings of Alzheimer’s disease in the context of sex and ancestry | Senior Scientist in Statistical Genetics at Merck & Co. |
Adam Kraya, PhD | Nathanson, Katherine | 2018-2019 | Understanding the immunogenicity of BRCA1/2 mutation associated breast and ovarian cancers | Supervisor Bioinformatics Scientist, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia |
Philip Freda, PhD | Moore, Jason | 2019-2021 | Investigation of genomic associations between opioid use disorders and mental health disorders | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania |
Pouya Khankhanian, MD | Litt, Brian | 2019-2020 | Finding the Missing Heritability in Epilepsy | Clinical neurologist, Kaiser Permanente |
Paul Ranum, PhD | Davidson, Beverly | 2019-2021 | High throughput quantification of full-length mRNAs from single-cells in neurodegenerative disorders | Postdoctoral Fellow, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia |
Nosheen Reza, MD | Musunuru, Kiran /
Owens, Anjali |
2017-2019 | A Novel Method for the Functional Annotation of Rare Missense Variants in ANGPTL3 | Instructor in Medicine University of Pennsylvania |