Leah Solberg Woods, PhD

Division

Research interests

Study interests

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

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

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