Faculty

Primary Faculty

Henrik Bengtsson, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Henrik Bengtsson, PhD, MS
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Bioinformatics
  • Genetic Epidemiology


Rebecca Graff, ScD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Genetic Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • prostate cancer, kidney cancer, cancer risk factors, cancer survivorship, genetics, pleiotropy, metabolomics, molecular subtyping


Thomas Hoffman, assistant professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & BIostatistics

Thomas Hoffmann, PhD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Biostatistics
  • Genetic Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Biostatistics, public health, human genetics, statistical genetics, high-dimensional data, statistical computing, machine learning, image classification, age-related hearing impairment, cardiovascular disease, cancer


Thomas Hoffmann

Thomas Hoffmann, PhD, MA
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Biostatistics
  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Genetic Epidemiology
  • Machine Learning

Research Interests:
  • Biostatistics, Public health, Human genetics, Statistical genetics, High-dimensional data, Statistical computing, Machine learning, Image classification, Age-related hearing impairment, Cardiovascular disease, Cancer


Neil Risch, PhD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Biostatistics
  • Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
  • Genetic Epidemiology


Mark Segal, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Mark Segal, PhD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Bioinformatics
  • Genetic Epidemiology
  • Machine Learning

Research Interests:
  • Bioinformatics, genetics


Dara Torgerson, PhD
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Bioinformatics
  • Biostatistics
  • Genetic Epidemiology
  • Lifecourse
  • Machine Learning
  • Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
  • Social Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Integrative Genomics, Metabolomics, Statistical Genetics, Minority Health, Neonatology, Respiratory Outcomes


Secondary Faculty

Karla Lindquist, PhD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Bioinformatics
  • Biostatistics
  • Genetic Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods, Cancer Genomics


Mark Seielstad, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Mark Seielstad, PhD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Genetic Epidemiology
  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • The interface of genetic epidemiology and population/anthropological genetics


Emeritus Faculty

John Wiencke, PhD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Genetic Epidemiology


Postdoc

Jovia L Nierenberg, PhD
Postdoc
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Genetic Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Genomics, multi-omics, and genetic relationships between cancer and other diseases of aging


Chenan Zhang, PhD
Fellow
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Genetic Epidemiology