Laura Raffield has received a U01 grant from NIA for a proposal to investigate the higher risk of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) for Black adults compared with non-Hispanic White adults. The project “hypothesize[s] that inflammation may be a key feature linking cardiometabolic and social determinants of health disparities with the risk of incident … Read more

Madeline Gillman, Daeeun Kim and Jayna Nicholas received travel awards to the May 22-24 CHARGE meeting in Denver where Madeline presented on Influence of Longitudinal Proteomic Trajectories on Cardiac Structure and Function in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study, Daeeun presented on The Impact of Long-term Exposure to Air Pollution on Plasma Proteomic and Metabolomic … Read more

Micah Hysong received a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, a five-year fellowship that provides three years of financial support. The goal of the NSFGR Program is to “broaden participation of the full spectrum of diverse talents in STEM.” Micah was selected based on his his research proposal “Leveraging Multi-omic data from Individuals with African Ancestry to … Read more

Researchers from the Raffield lab, as well as Raffield lab collaborators from the Li lab group had presentations or posters at the American Society for Human Genetics annual meeting (Nov. 1-5 2023). Brian Chen held his oral presentation Proteome-Wide Association Study Using Cis and Trans Variants and Applied to Blood Cell and Lipid-Related Traits in … Read more

Katherine was awarded the Biostatistics Undergraduate Summer Internships (BUSI) Program End-of-Summer Research Symposium Best Poster Award for her poster Cross-Platform Comparison of Type 2 Diabetes Proteomic Signatures in the Jackson Heart Study. This award is given annually to most accomplished poster presentations at the symposium.

Madeline Gillman was appointed to the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB) T32 Training Grant. Her proposal focused on QTLs for longitudinal ‘omic trajectory measures in TOPMed. Congratulations, Madeline!

Emily Drzymalla presented the poster “Association between neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in large biobank cohorts” at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) meeting in Amsterdam July 19, 2023. We look forward to sharing a manuscript describing these findings soon!

Le Huang presented the poster “Metabolite prediction models in UK Biobank: A metabolome-wide association study (MWAS)“ at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) meeting in Los Angeles, Oct, 2022. We look forward to sharing a manuscript describing these findings soon.

With many collaborators from TOPMed, the Raffield lab was pleased to contribute to recent whole genome sequencing based publications for red blood cell, white blood cell, and platelet related traits. These publications identified novel single variant signals for these heritable hematological measures, despite the 10x smaller sample size versus existing analyses of imputed genotyped data … Read more

Jayna Nicholas was appointed to the Genetics and Molecular Biology (GMB) T32 Training Grant. Her proposal focused on improved understanding of discordant pQTLs across proteomics platforms in diverse cohort studies from TOPMed. Congratulations, Jayna!