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Katrina Devick

Dr. Katrina Devick is currently a post doctorate fellow with Brent Coull at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She received her PhD in Biostatistics from Harvard University in 2018. Her research interests lie in developing new statistical methodology for causal mediation analysis. She pioneered a density regression approach to estimate mediation effects […]

Zack McCaw

Zack McCaw is currently a doctoral candidate in biostatistics at Harvard University. He completed his undergraduate in biostatistics and quantitative biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously, he examined the genetic basis of susceptibility to lung disease at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. His current research focuses on multivariate […]

Jiaxuan (Jessie) Liu

Jiaxuan (Jessie) Liu is a PhD candidate in Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, advised by Dr. Lori Chibnik. Jessie’s research interests include genetic and epigenetic epidemiology of mental health, neuropsychiatric disorders, and the related sociobehavioral factors. Jessie is currently working on her doctoral dissertation looking at post-traumatic stress disorder, cognitive aging, […]

Nishant Kishore

Nishant is a Steven M. Teutsch Public Health Analytics and Modeling Fellow working in the Global Immunization Division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He primarily works in the Polio Eradication Branch. Nishant earned a PhD in Epidemiology and SM in Biostatistics from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in July […]

Jorge Buendía-Buendía

Jorge Buendia-Buendia received his undergraduate degree in Genomic Sciences from the National University of Mexico (UNAM). He subsequently received an MPhil (Master of Philosophy) in Biological Sciences at the University of Cambridge and an MSc in Computational Biology and Quantitative Genetics at Harvard University. After graduation, he conducted research at the Broad Institute of MIT […]

Toni Boltz

Toni is a postdoctoral research fellow co-advised by Alicia Martin and Elise Robinson. She completed her PhD in Human Genetics at the University of California, Los Angeles where she focused on functional genomics of neuropsychiatric disorders using transcriptomics, chromatin accessibility, and metabolomics datasets. In October of 2023 she joined MGH/Broad where she is interested in […]

Daniel Howrigan

Daniel Howrigan is a senior data group leader within the Neale lab and Analytical and Translational Genetics Unit (ATGU), managing large genetics data projects and computational biologists within the unit. He received his PhD at University of Colorado, Boulder, researching the role of autozygosity in complex traits. He did his post-doctoral research in the Neale […]

Julia Sealock

Julia Sealock is a postdoctoral fellow in the Neale lab in the Analytic and Translational Unit at MGH and the Stanley Center at the Broad Institute. She received her PhD at Vanderbilt University, where she researched the association between depression genetics and immune biomarkers using electronic health records. In her fellowship, her project focuses on […]

Lerato Majara

Dr. Majara is a research fellow in Dr. Martin’s research group within the Analytic Translation Genetics Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School with an affiliation to the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa. She completed her PhD in Human Genetics in 2021 at […]