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Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics
Nicholas Alexander Borja

Nicholas A. Borja

Assistant Professor of Clinical Genetics
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Biography: Dr. Borja is a board-certified clinical geneticist born and raised in Miami who strives to provide excellent care to his patients in the South Florida community. His expertise lies in diagnosing and managing rare genetic disorders in both pediatric and adult patients. Dr. Borja also conducts research at the University of Miami in the field of hereditary cancer susceptibility...
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Michael Cuccaro, Ph.D.

Professor, Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics and Department of Psychology & Behavioral Sciences
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Biography: University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL
Associate Professor, Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics and Department of Psychology & Behavioral Sciences
Co-Director, Center for Genomic Education and Outreach (C-GEO), John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics

Dr. Cuccaro...
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Holly Cukier, Ph.D.

Holly N. Cukier, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor
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Biography: Dr. Cukier received her Doctoral degree from Baylor College of Medicine in the Department of Human and Molecular Genetics where she generated a novel fruit fly model of Rett syndrome, a disorder on the autism spectrum, and was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Cukier returned to the University of...
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Anthony J. Griswold, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics
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Biography: Dr. Griswold is an Assistant Professor in the Dr. John T. MacDonald Department of Human Genetics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and in the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics (HIHG). He received a BS degree in Biology from the University of Notre Dame and his PhD in Genetics from The George Washington University where he did his dissertation...
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Rosario Isasi, J.D., M.P.H.

Research Associate Professor
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Biography: Rosario Isasi, J.D., M.P.H. is a Research Associate Professor of Human Genetics in the Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics, the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics and Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at UM School of Law. She has built an international reputation as a scholar with unique expertise...
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Eden R. Martin, Ph.D.

Professor, Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation
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Biography: Professor, Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics and Department of Public Health Sciences
Director, The Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics

Eden R. Martin, Ph.D., is Director of the Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics at the John P....
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Jacob L. McCauley Ph.D.

Professor, Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics
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Biography: Jacob L. McCauley, Ph.D., is a Professor of Human Genetics and Pathology and the Director of the Center for Genome Technology and Biorepository Facility at the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics. Dr. McCauley is a genetic epidemiologist whose research focuses on the use of molecular techniques, bioinformatics, and statistical methods to identify genetic variation...
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Lluis Morey

Lluis Morey, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Human Genetics
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Biography: Dr. Morey is a tenured associate professor at the Human Genetics Department at University of Miami (UM) and member of the Cancer Epigenetics Program at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. He received his degree in Biology from Universidad de Barcelona in 2003. He completed his PhD studies in the laboratory of Dr. Luciano Di Croce, where he studied the role of the chromatin-remodeling...
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Margaret Pericak-Vance, Ph.D

Margaret Pericak-Vance, Ph.D

Director, John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics

Biography: Dr. Pericak-Vance is Director of the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics and Executive Vice Chair of the Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Board certified by the American Board of Medical Specialties in Medical Genetics, she is a founding fellow of the American College of Medical...
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Farid Rajabli

Research Asst. Professor of Human Genetics

Biography: Dr. Rajabli is a computational biologist with special emphasis and training in Bioinformatics and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML). Dr. Rajabli was the first to examine ancestry around the APOE locus showing that individuals with African ancestry had a decreased risk to develop AD for the APOE-4 allele thus indicating...
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Danny Reinberg, Ph.D.

Danny F. Reinberg, M.S., Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor, John T. MacDonald Department of Human Genetics Miller School of Medicine and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
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Biography: Born in Santiago, Chile, Danny Reinberg attained higher education in biochemistry and molecular biology in the USA, becoming a leader in Epigenetics and Chromatin Biology. Professor in the John T. MacDonald Department of Human Genetics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine School of Medicine and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center that currently studies...
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Ramin Shiekhattar

Ramin Shiekhattar, Ph.D.

Professor
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Biography: Dr. Shiekhattar serves as the Cancer Epigenetics Program Co-Leader at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. His own laboratory has been interested in understanding the mechanisms by which protein-coding genes are regulated and how disruption of such regulatory mechanisms may lead to neoplasia. Recent evidence has implicated changes in chromatin structure as an essential...
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Mustafa Tekin, M.D.

Mustafa Tekin, M.D.

Chair, Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics
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Biography: Dr. Mustafa Tekin is chair of the Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics and chief of the Division of Clinical and Translational Medicine. He graduated from Ankara University School of Medicine in 1992 and completed residency training in pediatrics at the same university and in clinical genetics at Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Tekin completed...
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Willa Thorson

Willa Thorson, M.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Clinical and Translational Genetics

Biography: Dr. Willa Thorson is a board-certified Clinical Geneticist. She is also board-certified in Pediatrics and Internal Medicine. Dr. Thorson was born and raised in California. She attended Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska. At Creighton, she met her future husband, and they pursued residency together at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital...
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Jeffery M. Vance

Jeffery M. Vance, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor and Founding Chair (2008-2013), Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics
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Biography: Jeffery M. Vance, M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor in the Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department Human Genetics (founding Chairman, 2008-2012) and a Professor of Neurology at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine. He is boarded by both the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American College of Medical Genetics and is an elected member of the...
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Liyong Wang, Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor, Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics
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Biography: Dr. Wang obtained her Ph.D. degree in molecular biology at Purdue University and her postdoctoral training in the Center of Human Genetics at Duke University. Her research has focused on understanding the biological basis for common, complex human diseases using ever evolving genomic technologies. She has mapped susceptibility loci for cardiovascular diseases and neurodegenerative...
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Gaofeng Wang, Ph.D.

Gaofeng Wang, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics and Department of Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
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Biography: Gaofeng Wang, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor with tenure in the Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics, an Associate Professor (secondary appointment) at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, a primary member of the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, and a member of Cancer Epigenetics Research Program in the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer...
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