Shaila Musharoff
Department: Computational Biology
Research Interests:
Shaila Musharoff is a human complex trait geneticist, who will join the department of Computational Biology at Cornell in January 2023. Dr. Musharoff received a PhD from Stanford working with Carlos Bustamante, did postdoctoral work with Noah Zaitlen at UCSD, and is currently a postdoc with Jonathan Pritchard at Stanford. Their work focuses on disparities in personal genomics, the impact of admixture on complex disease risk, and methods of inference of genetic risk, including polygenic scoring.