Biography Nita Ahuja, MD, MBA, is the dean of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and UW–Madison’s vice chancellor for medical affairs. She also serves as rotating chair or vice chair of the board of the UW Hospitals and Clinics Authority and is a professor in the Department of Surgery. Ahuja …
Biography Genetic Counselor, Undiagnosed Genetic Disease Program Assistant Professor (CHS) Dr. April Hall is an Assistant Professor (CHS) in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Genetics and Metabolism, the Assistant Director of outreach and education for the Center for Precision Medicine and the Associate Director of research for the Masters of Genetic Counseling Studies Program. …
Lab Website Biography Dr. Gaelen Hess is an Assistant Professor within the Department of Biomolecular Chemistry and Center for Precision Medicine. Research Interests With the emerging appreciation of precision medicine, the link of genetic and epigenetic perturbations to their phenotypes is vital. With the advent of CRISPR-mediated genome editing and high-throughput sequencing, we can systematically …
Biography Dr. Mehreen Kisat is an Assistant Professor within the Department of Surgery. Her research interests include focusing on ways to improve outcomes for critically ill patients with sepsis by optimizing recognition, diagnostics, and treatment. The Kisat Lab is interested in further developing point of care molecular diagnostic approaches to rapidly confirm microbial infections and …
Biography Dr. Kratz is a physician-scientist at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center. He serves at the lead for targeted therapeutics for first in human early phase clinical trials and co-chair of the UW Precision Medicine and Molecular Tumor Board. In the laboratory, he studies hepatobiliary and pancreatic cancer organotypic models from patient-derived tissues. …
Lang Lab Biography Dr. Jessica Lang is an Assistant Professor within the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Her research interests include ovarian cancer, genomics, epigenetics, and translational research. The Lang Lab is interested in how somatic mutations to epigenetic driver genes, such as SWI/SNF subunit mutation, leads to targetable alterations to the epigenetic landscape …
Biography Dr. M. Stephen Meyn is a Professor in the Division of Genetics & Metabolism, Department of Pediatrics and Co-Director of the UW NORD Center of Excellence for Rare Diseases. Dr. Meyn’s research interests are broad – from fundamental studies of DNA repair and telomere biology to novel clinical applications of genome sequencing and the ethics …
Murtaza Lab Biography Dr. Muhammed Murtaza is an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery and the Director of the Center for Precision Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Murtaza’s research focuses on enhancing access to advanced cancer diagnostic technologies, particularly liquid biopsies, for patients in low-income settings. His lab, the Murtaza Lab, is …
Biography Dr. Irene Ong is an Associate Professor, Division of Reproductive Sciences, Faculty at Center for Precision Medicine at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Ong has an impressive portfolio around her research interests of data mining, machine learning, probabilistic methods, dynamical models, with applications to biological and medical data, particularly trans-omics, cancer immunotherapy, and precision …
Biography Dr. Bryn Webb is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and the Division of Genetics & Metabolism. She is a board-certified pediatrician, clinical geneticist, and clinical molecular geneticist. Dr. Webb’s lab focuses on better understanding the genetics and pathophysiology of rare, Mendelian disorders. She has a particular interest in undiagnosed rare disease, …