Genomics and Pharmacogenomics

Laura Scheinfeldt is program manager and principal investigator of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Human Genetics Resource Center at the Coriell Institute for Medical Research. Her research has focused on the distribution of human genetic variation within and among populations living across the world and the relationship between genetic and phenotypic variation. Using an interdisciplinary approach, she has studied how genetic variation contributes to disease and drug response and has applied this research to precision medicine. For the past five years, she has worked with the Coriell Personalized Medicine Collaborative (CPMC) to understand how genetic and non-genetic factors impact health-related traits; she has worked on understanding how ascertainment biases in the current research literature impact marginalized populations and contribute to health disparities; and she has worked on identifying the subset of common genetic risk factors for complex disease that may motivate preventive health behaviors.