Research Investigators
Senior Clinicians

Benjamin Solomon, M.D.
- Clinical Director
- Office of the Clinical Director
Senior Investigators

Joan E. Bailey Wilson, Ph.D.
- Chief & Senior Investigator
- Computational and Statistical Genomics Branch

Daphne W. Bell, Ph.D.
- Senior Investigator
- Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch

Diana W. Bianchi, M.D.
- Senior Investigator
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch

Leslie G. Biesecker, M.D.
- NIH Distinguished Investigator
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch

David M. Bodine, Ph.D.
- Chief & Senior Investigator
- Genetics and Molecular Biology Branch

Lawrence Brody, Ph.D.
- Director
- Division of Genomics and Society

Shawn Burgess, Ph.D.
- Senior Investigator
- Translational and Functional Genomics Branch

Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
- Senior Investigator
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch

Laura Elnitski, Ph.D.
- Senior Investigator
- Translational and Functional Genomics Branch

William A. Gahl, M.D., Ph.D.
- Director
- Undiagnosed Diseases Program

Gary H. Gibbons, M.D.
- Senior Investigator
- Metabolic, Cardiovascular and Inflammatory Disease Genomics Branch

Dan Kastner, M.D., Ph.D.
- Director
- Division of Intramural Research

Laura M. Koehly, Ph.D.
- Chief
- Social and Behavioral Research Branch

Paul P. Liu, M.D., Ph.D.
- Senior Investigator
- Translational and Functional Genomics Branch

Elaine A. Ostrander, Ph.D.
- Chief & NIH Distinguished Investigator
- Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch

William J. Pavan, Ph.D.
- Chief
- Genetic Disease Research Branch

Adam M. Phillippy, Ph.D.
- Senior Investigator
- Computational and Statistical Genomics Branch

Charles Rotimi, Ph.D.
- NIH Distinguished Investigator
- Metabolic, Cardiovascular and Inflammatory Disease Genomics Branch

Julie Segre, Ph.D.
- Chief & Senior Investigator
- Translational and Functional Genomics Branch

Philip Shaw, B.M. B.Ch., Ph.D.
- Senior Investigator
- Social and Behavioral Research Branch

Ellen Sidransky, M.D.
- Chief and Senior Investigator
- Medical Genetics Branch

Charles P. Venditti, M.D., Ph.D.
- Senior Investigator
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch
Investigators

Peter J. McGuire, M.D.
- Investigator
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch

Meru J. Sadhu, Ph.D.
- Investigator
- Genetic Disease Research Branch
Senior Scientists

Andy Baxevanis, Ph.D.
- Head
- Computational Genomics Unit

Sharon K. Davis, M.Ed., M.P.A., Ph.D.
- Senior Scientist
- Social and Behavioral Research Branch

Jim Mullikin, Ph.D.
- Senior Scientist
- Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch
Associate Investigators

David Adams, M.D., Ph.D.
- Senior Staff Clinician
- Human Biochemical Genetics Section

Adebowale A. Adeyemo, M.D.
- Deputy Director
- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health

Ivona Aksentijevich, M.D.
- Associate Investigator
- Metabolic, Cardiovascular and Inflammatory Disease Genomics Branch

Vence L. Bonham Jr., J.D.
- Senior Advisor to the NHGRI Director on Genomics and Health Disparities
- Office of the Director

Sean P. Conlan, Ph.D.
- Associate Investigator Microbial Genomics Section
- Translational and Functional Genomics Branch

Settara Chandrasekharappa, Ph.D.
- Associate Investigator
- Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch

Sara Chandros Hull, Ph.D.
- Director
- NHGRI Bioethics Core

Irini Manoli, M.D.
- Associate Investigator
- Organic Acid Research Section

Susan J. Persky, Ph.D.
- Associate Investigator
- Social and Behavioral Research Branch

Elaine Remmers, Ph.D.
- Associate Investigator
- Inflammatory Disease Section

James W. Thomas, Ph.D.
- Deputy Director
- NIH Intramural Sequencing Center

Cynthia Tifft, M.D., Ph.D.
- Deputy Clinical Director
- Office of the Clinical Director
Scientific Cores

Stacie M. Anderson, B.S.
- Director
- Flow Cytometry Core

Andy Baxevanis, Ph.D.
- Director
- Bioinformatics and Scientific Programming Core

Benjamin E. Berkman, J.D., M.P.H.
- Deputy Director
- NHGRI Bioethics Core

Settara Chandrasekharappa, Ph.D.
- Director
- Genomics Core

Amalia Dutra
- Director
- Cytogenetics and Microscopy Core

Abdel G. Elkahloun, Ph.D.
- Head
- Microarray Core

Lisa Garrett, M.S.
- Director
- Embryonic Stem Cell and Transgenic Mouse Core

Sara Chandros Hull, Ph.D.
- Director
- Bioethics Core

Raman Sood, Ph.D.
- Director
- Zebrafish Core

Tyra Wolfsberg, Ph.D.
- Associate Director
- Bioinformatics and Scientific Programming Core
Adjunct Investigators

Manfred Boehm, M.D.
- Senior Investigator Laboratory of Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine
- National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

Carsten G. Bonnemann, M.D.
- Adjunct Investigator
- Medical Genetics Branch

Brian P. Brooks, M.D., Ph.D.
- Adjunct Investigator
- Genetic Disease Research Branch

Kenneth Fischbeck, M.D.
- NIH Distinguished Investigator
- Neurogenetics Branch, NINDS

Edward S. Giniger, Ph.D.
- Adjunct Investigator
- Genetics and Molecular Biology Branch

James Inglese, Ph.D.
- Adjunct Investigator
- Genetics and Molecular Biology Branch

Paul Meltzer, M.D., Ph.D.
- Adjunct Investigator
- Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch

Pamela Schwartzberg, M.D., Ph.D.
- Chief
- Cell Signaling and Immunity Section (NIAID)

Douglas Stewart, M.D.
- Adjunct Investigator
- Genetic Disease Research Branch
Scientist Emeritus

Alexander Wilson, Ph.D.
- Scientist Emeritus
- Computational and Statistical Genomics Branch
Last updated: November 6, 2020