People

John B. Hogenesch, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics
Thomas F. Boat Chair
Divisions of Human Genetics, Immunobiology,
and Pulmonary Medicine
Director, Center for Circadian Medicine
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Current Laboratory Members

Marc Ruben, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher

Jiffin Paulose, PhD
Lab Manager

Samantha Whitacre
Research Technician

Gang Wu, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher

Alumni and Mentored Scientists

Ron Anafi, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Division of Sleep Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Pedro Aza-Blanc, PhD
Science leader, Cell-based genomics/ target discovery, Thermo Fisher

Heather Ballance, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher, Neuroscience, Boston University

Julie Baggs, PhD
Scientific Director, Omega Bio-tek

Sibel Cal-Kayitmazbatir, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher

Sumit Chanda, PhD
Professor, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Scripps Research

Mike Conkright, PhD
Investment Analyst, GQG Partners

Jason DeBruyne, PhD
Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Morehouse School of Medicine

Lauren Francey, MS
Research Project Manager, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Tiago Gomes de Andrade, PhD
Circadian Medicine Center, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil

Alisa Dong, PhD
Life Science Consultant, L.E.K Consulting

Jeanne Geskes
Senior Field Application Specialist, New England Biolabs

Jacki Growe, MS
Genomics Scientist, Ensoma

Josephine Harada, PhD, MBA
Vice President of Business Development, Thrive Earlier Detection

Kevin Hayes, PhD
Global Lead, Data Science and Informatics Strategy and Communication, Corteva Agriscience

Ines Hoffmann, PhD
Director of Clinical Operations, Ionis Pharmaceuticals

Michael Hughes, PhD
Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine

I. Halil Kavakli, PhD
Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Koç University

Nick Lahens, PhD
Bioinformatics Researcher, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Yool Lee, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Translational Medicine and Physiology, Washington State University

Yin Yeng Lee
Postdoctoral Fellow, Merck

Loren Miraglia
Principal Investigator, The Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation

Kinnery Naik Patel, MPH
Infection Prevention Program Manager, Kaiser Permanente

Anthony Olarerin-George, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University

Tony Orth, PhD
Director of Genomics, the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation

Satchin Panda, PhD
Professor, Regulatory Biology, the Salk Research Institute

Susana Pires, PhD
Freelance/Consultant, Non-clinical safety development of biologics

Trey Sato, PhD
Senior Scientist, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin

Rob Schmidt
Graduate Student, Iowa State University

David Smith, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Division of Otolaryngology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Andrew Su, PhD
Professor, Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research

Anand Venkataraman, PhD
Consultant, ZS

John Walker, PhD
Associate Director, the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation

Aaron Willingham, PhD
Distinguished Scientist and Group Leader, Merck

Rochelle Witt, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Division of Neurology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Gina Zastrow
Genomics Technology Leader, Corteva Agriscience

Ray Zhang, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Division of Pathology, UT Southwestern Medical Center