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Wei Zhao, Ph.D.

She/Her

Research Assistant Professor
Institute for Social Research

Wei Zhao is Research Assistant Professor at the Institute for Social Research (ISR). She was trained in Psychology (Ph.D) and Statistics (M.A.) at the University of Michigan, and was a research faculty at the School of Public Health prior to joining ISR. She is a genetic epidemiologist with more than 10 years of experience doing genetic association studies in large epidemiological cohorts. Her research aims to identify genetic risk factors leading to human complex diseases/traits. She applys advanced high-dimensional statistical models and methods to investigate the relationship between multi-omics (genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics), social/environmental factor, and complex human diseases/traits in multi-ancestry populations. She has studied a variety of disease outcomes and health behaviors with a recent focus on cognition, dementia and mental health related traits.


Projects:

None - Planning to apply

Research Area(s)

Epidemiology | Genetics / Genomics / other OMICS

Grants

  • Co-investigator of: Expanding and Enhancing LASI-DAD for Better Understanding of AD and Dementia
  • Co-investigator of: Socio-Contextual and Multi-Omic Predictors of Cognition and Dementia
  • Co-investigator of: Socio-Contextual and Multi-Omic Predictors of Cognition and Dementia
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