Research Investigators
Senior Clinicians
Cynthia Tifft, M.D., Ph.D.
- Deputy Clinical Director
- Glycosphingolipid and Glycoprotein Disorders Unit
David Adams, M.D., Ph.D.
- Senior Clinician
- Office of the Clinical Director
Oleg A. Shchelochkov, M.D.
- Director
- Medical Genetics and Genomic Medicine Training Program
NIH Distinguished Investigators
Leslie G. Biesecker, M.D.
- Director & NIH Distinguished Investigator
- Center for Precision Health Research
Dan Kastner, M.D., Ph.D.
- NIH Distinguished Investigator
- Medical Genetics Branch
Elaine A. Ostrander, Ph.D.
- Chief & NIH Distinguished Investigator
- Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch
Charles Rotimi, Ph.D.
- Scientific Director and NIH Distinguished Investigator, Division of Intramural Research
- Director, Center for Research in Genomics and Global Health
Julie Segre, Ph.D.
- Chief and NIH Distinguished Investigator
- Translational and Functional Genomics Branch
Senior Investigators
Lawrence Brody, Ph.D.
- Director
- Division of Genomics and Society
Shawn Burgess, Ph.D.
- Co-Deputy Director, Division of Intramural Research
- Senior Investigator, Translational and Functional Genomics Branch
Laura Elnitski, Ph.D.
- Co-Deputy Director, Division of Intramural Research
- Senior Investigator, Translational and Functional Genomics Branch
William A. Gahl, M.D., Ph.D.
- Senior Investigator, Medical Genetics Branch
- Director, Undiagnosed Diseases Program
Neil A. Hanchard, M.B.B.S., D.Phil.
- Senior Investigator
- Center for Precision Health Research
Laura M. Koehly, Ph.D.
- Chief & Senior Investigator
- Social and Behavioral Research Branch
Paul P. Liu, M.D., Ph.D.
- Senior Investigator
- Translational and Functional Genomics Branch
Ellen Sidransky, M.D.
- Chief and Senior Investigator
- Medical Genetics Branch
Benjamin Solomon, M.D.
- Clinical Director
- Office of the Clinical Director
Charles P. Venditti, M.D., Ph.D.
- Chief and Senior Investigator
- Metabolic Medicine Branch
Investigators
Peter McGuire, M.S., M.B.B.Ch.
- Investigator
- Metabolic Medicine Branch
Meru J. Sadhu, Ph.D.
- Stadtman Investigator
- Center for Genomics and Data Science Research
Senior Scientists
Andy Baxevanis, Ph.D.
- Director of Computational Biology
- NIH Office of Intramural Research
James W. Thomas, Ph.D.
- Senior Scientist
- NIH Intramural Sequencing Center
Associate Investigators
Adebowale A. Adeyemo, M.D.
- Associate Investigator
- Center for Genomics and Data Science Research
Ivona Aksentijevich, M.D.
- Associate Investigator
- Inflammatory Disease Section
Stacie M. Anderson, B.S.
- Associate Investigator
- Office of Scientific Core Facilities
Benjamin E. Berkman, J.D., M.P.H.
- Associate Investigator
- Office of the Clinical Director
Sean P. Conlan, Ph.D.
- Associate Investigator
- Microbial Genomics Section
Settara Chandrasekharappa, Ph.D.
- Associate Investigator
- Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch
Randy Chandler, Ph.D., M.B.
- Associate Investigator
- Organic Acid Research Section
Abdel G. Elkahloun, Ph.D.
- Associate Investigator
- Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch
Lori Erby, Sc.M., Ph.D., C.G.C.
- Associate Investigator
- Center for Precision Health Research
Michael R. Erdos, Ph.D.
- Associate Investigator
- Molecular Genetics Section
Valer Gotea, Ph.D.
- Associate Investigator
- Translational and Functional Genomics Branch
Sergey Koren, Ph.D.
- Associate Investigator
- Genome Informatics Section
Chris Gunter, Ph.D.
- Associate Investigator
- Social and Behavioral Research Branch
Eirini Manoli, M.D., Ph.D.
- Senior Research Physician
- Organic Acid Research Section
Heidi Parker, Ph.D.
- Associate Investigator
- Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch
Susan Persky, Ph.D.
- Associate Investigator
- Social and Behavioral Research Branch
Oleg A. Shchelochkov, M.D.
- Associate Investigator
- National Human Genome Research Institute
James W. Thomas, Ph.D.
- Associate Investigator
- NIH Intramural Sequencing Center
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
- Bioethics Core
Settara Chandrasekharappa, Ph.D.
- Director
- Genomics Core
Abdel G. Elkahloun, Ph.D.
- Head
- Microarrays and Single-Cell Genomics Core
Tyra Wolfsberg, Ph.D.
- Associate Director
- Bioinformatics and Scientific Programming Core
Clesson Turner, M.D.
- Director
- Reverse Phenotyping Core
Stephen Wincovitch Sr., M.S.
- Director
- Advanced Imaging and Analysis Core
Adjunct Investigators
Manfred Boehm, M.D.
- Adjunct Investigator
- Office of the Clinical Director, NHGRI
Brian P. Brooks, M.D., Ph.D.
- Adjunct Investigator
- Center for Precision Health Research
Lindsey A. Criswell, M.D., M.P.H., D.Sc.
- Adjunct Investigator
- Medical Genetics Branch
Joshua Denny, M.D., M.S.
- Adjunct Investigator
- Center for Precision Health Research
Edward S. Giniger, Ph.D.
- Adjunct Investigator
- Medical Genetics Branch
James Inglese, Ph.D.
- Adjunct Investigator
- Metabolic Medicine Branch
William M. Klein, Ph.D.
- Adjunct Investigator
- Center for Precision Health Research
Paul Meltzer, M.D., Ph.D.
- Adjunct Investigator
- Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch
Sean Mooney, Ph.D.
- Adjunct Investigator
- Center for Genomics and Data Science Research
Pamela Schwartzberg, M.D., Ph.D.
- Adjunct Investigator
- Center for Genomics and Data Science Research
Douglas Stewart, M.D.
- Adjunct Investigator
- Center for Precision Health Research
Scientist Emeriti
Alexander Wilson, Ph.D.
- Scientist Emeritus
- Division of Intramural Research
Joan E. Bailey-Wilson, Ph.D.
- Scientist Emerita
- Center for Genomics and Data Science Research
Last updated: June 10, 2026