People
People
Our lab works in statistical genetics, biostatistics, clinical research, and research software development at Michigan Medicine and the School of Public Health.
Current team
Lars Fritsche, PhD
Lab Head
Research Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Biostatistics and a faculty member of the Chronic Pain & Fatigue Research Center
Lars works with collaborators to combine genetic, clinical, patient-reported, and mobile data in studies of treatment response and disease risk.
Ryan Welch, PhD
Application Programmer/Analyst Lead
Anesthesiology
Ryan uses genetic and molecular data to better understand complex human traits and improve clinical decision-making.
Sarah Fazal, PhD
Research Fellow
Anesthesiology
Sarah brings experience in human genetics and bioinformatics to the lab’s pain genetics and phenotyping research.
Co-mentored through U-M's HEAL PAIN T90/R90 program.
Shivalika Pathania, PhD
Research Fellow
Biostatistics
Shivalika is a computational biologist and bioinformatician with experience in integrative omics and biological network analysis.
Tai Yang, MS
Graduate Student Research Assistant (GSRA) and PhD Candidate
Biostatistics
Tai develops and evaluates polygenic scores for mental health phenotypes across biobanks and ancestry groups.
Where alumni go
Former lab members have continued their graduate studies or taken roles in academia and industry. Each entry lists their role in the lab and their next position.
Liying Chen, PhD
Graduate Student Research Assistant (GSRA), 2025 to 2026
Statistician, Eli Lilly and Company
Ying Ma, PhD
Graduate Student Research Assistant (GSRA), 2020 to 2023
Assistant Professor, Brown University School of Public Health
Brandon Hutchison, MS
Graduate Student Research Assistant (GSRA), 2023 to 2024
MS Candidate, Biostatistics, University of Michigan
Snehal Patil, MS
Application Programmer and original developer of the PRSweb portals, 2019 to 2021
Senior Application Programmer, University of Michigan
Jiahan Chen, MS
Graduate Student Research Assistant (GSRA), 2019 to 2019
Research Assistant and PhD student in Bioinformatics, North Carolina State University
Robert Peng, MS
Graduate Student Research Assistant (GSRA), 2017 to 2018
PhD Candidate, Department of Statistics, Northwestern University