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
Sibel Cal, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
Yin Yeng Lee
Graduate Student
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
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
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