Alison Fohner, Principal Investigator

Dr. Fohner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at UW and Interim Director for the Institute for Public Health Genetics. She is a member of the Cardiovascular Health Research Unit at UW and adjunct investigator at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research.

As an epidemiologist with multidisciplinary training in genomics, proteomics, bioethics, immunology, pharmaceutics, and data science, she is passionate about identifying mechanisms of individual variability in biomarkers and disease risk and translating those discoveries to improve therapies and population screening for all people, especially those from populations historically underrepresented in biomedical research.

She earned her PhD from the Institute for Public Health Genetics at the University of Washington and trained as a Clinical Informatics and Delivery Science Postdoctoral Fellow at Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research.

She received a Bachelor’s of Science in Biology with honors, a Minor in Chemistry, and a Master’s of Science in Biology at Stanford University, where she studied immune dysfunction in asthma.

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