Laura Raffield

Assistant Professor of Genetics

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dr. Raffield uses human genomics and multi-omics to understand inherited and environmental risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases and related quantitative traits, with a particular focus on underrepresented African American and Hispanic/Latino populations. She plays a leadership role in a number of genomic consortia efforts, for example serving as an Inflammation/Hematology working group co-chair for the Population Architecture Using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) consortium and co-convening the Multi-Omics working group for the NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) program.

https://www.med.unc.edu/genetics/directory/laura-raffield-phd

Assistant Professor of Genetics

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dr. Raffield uses human genomics and multi-omics to understand inherited and environmental risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases and related quantitative traits, with a particular focus on underrepresented African American and Hispanic/Latino populations. She plays a leadership role in a number of genomic consortia efforts, for example serving as an Inflammation/Hematology working group co-chair for the Population Architecture Using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) consortium and co-convening the Multi-Omics working group for the NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) program.

https://www.med.unc.edu/genetics/directory/laura-raffield-phd