Maulik Patel, PhD

Maulik Patel, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Maulik is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Cruchaga lab and manages GWAS, RNA-Seq and neuro imaging data. Maulik received his doctoral degree in Bioinformatics from Gujarat University and his Master degree in Bioinformatics from Sardar Patel University. Before joining the lab, he worked as a Project Scientist in Xcelris Genomics for 5 years and as Application Scientist in Bioinnovation for 2.5 years. He collaborated with various universities in the development of pipelines for the analysis of large-scale de-novo assembly, transcriptome, metagenomics and targeted exome data. He also worked on various functional and network analysis of high-throughput multi-omics and metabolomics data. Recently, he designed a 94-gene panel for Alzheimer's disease patients with a diabetic condition to understand early detection and progression of the diseases.

Alvin Thomas, PhD

Alvin Thomas, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Analyst

Alvin leverages multi-omic, psychometric, and brain imaging data to understand the biology of cognitive resilience to Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. The long-term goal of this line of work is to improve the health of aging populations. Alvin’s other interests include causal inference and deep learning. Alvin earned a BS with honors in Chemistry and Engineering from Washington and Lee University, a MSPH in Global Disease Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He served in the AmeriCorps program and remains committed to diminishing poverty through research and service.

Chengran  Yang, PhD

Chengran Yang, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Chengran received his PhD in Human and Statistical Genetics at Washington University with Carlos Cruchaga.  Before joining back the lab as a postdoc, he worked as a Scientist in Statistical Genetics/Computational Biology at Biogen.