Author Archives: Jonathon Cornett

Dr. Remi Ketchum (Postdoctoral Fellow - Schrider Lab) received a new K99/R00 award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for her project titled “Novel methods for detecting positive selection in mosquitoes”.

Dr. Mark Heise (Professor, Genetics and M&I) is the recipient of two new R21 awards from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).  

Dr. Folami Ideraabdullah (Associate Professor, Genetics and Nutrition) was awarded a new R21 grant from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) for her project titled “Developmental windows of vitamin D supplementation for optimal metabolic health”.

Dr. Qingyun Liu (Assistant Professor) et al. published a paper in Trends in Genetics titled “Heterogeneity in microbial antibiotic responses: Genetic basis and within-host evolution”.

Emily Drzymalla is an epidemiology graduate student and has been awarded a National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) from the National Institute of Aging (NIA), for her project titled “Metabolomic correlates of improved Alzheimer’s disease polygenic risk score for different populations”.

Dr. Chuck Perou (Distinguished Professor) has been appointed an honorary Doctor of Medicine by the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.

Dr. Anne Thessen (Associate Professor) received a consulting contract from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Common Data Element program.

Jon Rosen (Assistant Professor of Genetics) et al. publish paper in AJHG titled "Higher eQTL power reveals signals that boost GWAS colocalization".

Dr. Melissa Haendel (Distinguished Professor, Genetics) is first author on a newly published paper in Science titled “Governing real-world health data as a public utility”.

Dr. Sam Wolff was promoted to Associate Professor, effective February 1, 2026.