Precision Wellness Initiative Symposia Series: Rasika Mathias, Sc.D.

Presented by BIO5

Speaker: Rasika Mathias, Sc.D.

Dr. Rasika Mathias, ScD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. She maintains a joint appointment in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine as well as the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Mathias is currently building a program on Next Generation Sequencing approaches to dissecting the genetics of complex diseases with an emphasis on populations of African ancestry focusing on three specific areas of research all tied together by the comment thread of sequencing as a tool to investigate genetic determinants of traits that underlie complex disease in the context of health disparities described under her Current Research.

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The objective of the Precision Wellness Initiative Symposia is to bring people together and integrate scientific communities around research, next- generation technology, personalized nutrition, and lifestyle to optimize the state of health for each individual.