Dr. Annavajhala is interested in the use of wastewater and environmental sampling to better understand pathogen-microbial community and pathogen-environment interactions. Her goal is to harness environmental surveillance to benefit population-level health.
Dr. Gandal investigates the genetic contributions to typical human brain development and neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders. His multidisciplinary research program integrates genetics with functional genomic profiling in the human brain, along with bioinformatics and computational biology.
For this study, we are studying the relationship between variations in the genes of the immune system called HLA and how they relate to the risk of developing nephrotic syndrome, response to treatment of nephrotic syndrome and risk of recurrence of nephrotic syndrome following kidney transplantation.
