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Jennifer Wessel是IU Richard M. Fairbanks公共卫生学院的基因组流行病学副教授和Lilly学者。必威体育娱乐官网必威APP精装版苹果She received her PhD in genetic epidemiology from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and San Diego State University School of Public Health, a Master’s of Public Health in Epidemiology and a Bachelors of Science in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Arizona. She furthered her training as a post-doctoral fellow at Scripps Genomic Medicine Institute. During her post-doctoral training, she was recruited to be the first scientist at a direct-to-consumer personalized genetics company, Navigenics.
Wessel的主要研究区博士是心血管基因组流行病学。Her research involves identifying novel genomic risk factors for coronary heart disease and related outcomes, disease-gene associations for coronary heart disease pharmacologic endpoints, developing innovative public health interventions to promote healthy lifestyles through personalized interventions and risk communication based on individual’s genetic and lifestyle profiles, and developing epidemiologic and statistical methods for genomic data.