Institute Members

The MIHG and the John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics (DHG) are home to a world-class faculty, with a broad variety of specialties and research interests.

Susan Blanton, PhD
Associate Director, Communications and Compliance
Expertise: Genetic epidemiology, birth defects
Michael L. Cuccaro, PhD
Associate Director, Patient and Family Ascertainment Center
Expertise: Neurodevelopmental disorders, child psychology, phenotype development
John R. Gilbert, PhD
Director, Center for Genome Technology
Expertise: Molecular genetics, neurological disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders
Dale J. Hedges, PhD
Assistant Director, Center for Genome Technology
Expertise: Neurodevelopmental disorders
Deqiong Ma, MD, PhD
Expertise: Neurodevelopmental disorders, diseases of childhood
Eden R. Martin, PhD
Director, Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics
Expertise: Statistical genetics, neurodevelopmental disorders, neurological disorders
Richard W. Morris, PhD
Associate Director, Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics
Expertise: Statistical methods development
Evadnie Rampersaud, MSPH, PhD
Expertise: Expertise: Genetic epidemiology, maternal and child health
William K. Scott, PhD
Associate Director, Bioinformatics
Expertise: Neurological disorders, ophthalmological disorders, gerontological studies
Michael A. Slifer, MD, PhD
Expertise: Neurological disorders, molecular genetics
Gaofeng Wang, PhD
Expertise: Neurological disorders, ophthalmological disorders
Liyong Wang, PhD
Expertise: Molecular genetics, neurological disorders
Stephan Züchner, MD
Director, Center for Human Molecular Genomics
Expertise: Molecular genetics, neurogenetics, psychiatric genetics
Jacob L. McCauley, PhD
Assistant Professor, Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics
Expertise: Genetic epidemiology, genetics of neurological disease
Ren-Hua Chung, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Expertise: Statistical method development for complex disease-gene mapping
Gary Beecham PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Expertise: Statistical genetics, methods development