Esteban Burchard, MD

Professor of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences and of Medicine Director, Center for Genes, Environments & Health

Graduate Program Membership: BMSPSPG

The Burchard Lab studies asthma and therapeutic response in racial and ethnically diverse populations, and the variation in asthma risk among populations. By studying several populations at once we can identify those risk factors that are common to all groups while also identifying those risk factors that are specific to one racial group. In addition, the rich and mixed ancestry of worldwide populations can be leveraged to untangle complex gene-environment (G x E) interactions in disease susceptibility and drug response.