In February 2018, the University of Wisconsin-Madison began recruiting three tenure-track faculty for a Cluster Hire in Social Genomics. CDHA Director Jason Fletcher (sociology/public affairs/public health sciences) and CDHA affiliates Corinne Engelman (population health sciences), James Li (psychology), and Qiongshi Lu (biostatistics and medical informatics) submitted the successful proposal for the Cluster Hire with the …
CDHA is pioneering four new pilot projects this fall: Testing Gene-environment Interactions without Measuring the Environmental Factor PI: Qiongshi Lu, Assistant Professor, Biostatistics & Medical Informatics Dr. Lu seeks to use this pilot project to address a lack of epidemiological risk factors in major genome-wide association studies. His lab will work to explore if a …
CDHA is thrilled to welcome six new affiliates for fall 2019! James Li is an assistant professor in Psychology. He uses genetics and quantitative analysis of environmental factors as methods to investigate the underlying factors associated with behavioral disorders in childhood. He further expands expertise in CDHA’s biodemography theme. Stephen Meyn is the Director of …
The National Institute on Aging began funding seven new projects by CDHA over the last twelve months, including several new this fall! As a whole, the projects bring in millions of dollars in research funding to CDHA and UW-Madison. The projects include a pair of studies that utilize a newly-available longitudinal dataset which tracks the …