Leah Solberg Woods, PhD
- Investigator, Children's Research Institute
- Assistant professor, Pediatrics/Genomics, Medical College of Wisconsin
Locations
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8701 Watertown Plank Rd.Milwaukee, WI 53226
Overview
Division
- Genomic Pediatrics
Research interests
- Diabetes/obesity
- Genetic diseases/genomics
Study interests
- Genetics of type 2 diabetes
Education
- Doctorate, Northwestern University, Chicago, 2002; post-doctoral fellow, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics (Jonathan Flint), University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 2004
- Post-doctoral fellow, Human and Molecular Genetics Center (Howard Jacob), Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2007
Education and Awards
Education
Awards
- Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society, 1995
- Alpha Zeta Mu Academic Honor Society, 1995
- Academic Scholarship, Central College, Pella, IA, 1995
- Iowa Psychological Association Scholarship Award, 1994
- 2nd place Award, Great Plains Annual Psychology Convention, Chicago, 1994
- Nussbaum Award, Neuroscience Day Presentation, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2001
- Travel Scholarship, Keystone Symposium, Breckenridge, CO, 2004
- Travel Scholarship Short Course on Complex Trait Analysis, Jackson Laboratories, MA, 2006
- Travel Scholarship, Rat Genome Meeting, Melbourne, Australia, 2006
Research and publications
Research
- Integrative Biology of Childhood Kidney Disease, National Institutes of Health, pilot and feasibility recipient
- Genome-wide Fine-mapping of Metabolic Traits in Heterogenerous Stock Rats, National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Disease, principal investigator
- Next Generation Sequencing to Identify Candidate Variants Involved in Glucose Regulation, Children's Research Institute, principal investigator
- Gene Expression in HS Rats to Identify Novel Genes and Pathways Involved in Glucose Regulation, Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin: Research for a Healthier Tomorrow, principal investigator
- Fine-mapping NIDDM1 using Heterogeneous Stock Rats, National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Disease, principal investigator