Lab Members

See our contact page for information on open positions in the lab.

Principal Investigator

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Joseph D. Romano, PhD, MPhil, MA

Assistant Professor of Informatics and Pharmacology

Institute for Biomedical Informatics

Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology

Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, & Informatics

University of Pennsylvania

403 Blockley Hall

423 Guardian Drive

Philadelphia, PA 19104


Lab Staff

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Tom Pan

Data Scientist


Students and Trainees

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Nia Abdurezak

PhD Rotation Student

Graduate Group in Genomics and Computational Biology

University of Pennsylvania

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Giuseppe Albi

PhD Student

Università di Pavia

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Oresta Hewryk

PhD Student

Department of Biology

University of Pennsylvania

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Sophie Kearney

PhD Rotation Student

Graduate Group in Genomics and Computational Biology

University of Pennsylvania

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Tram Anh Nguyen

PhD Rotation Student

Graduate Group in Genomics and Computational Biology

University of Pennsylvania

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Chloé Paris

PhD Student

Graduate Group in Genomics and Computational Biology

University of Pennyslvania

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Wendy Su

PhD Rotation Student

Graduate Group in Genomics and Computational Biology

University of Pennsylvania


Lab Alumni

Travyse Edwards

PhD Student

University of Pennsylvania

Kevin Shen

Undergraduate Student

University of Pennsylvania

Angela Wu

M.D. Candidate

Baylor College of Medicine


Friends of the Lab

Sokratis Apostolidis, MD

Instructor of Medicine

NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow of Medicine

University of Pennsylvania

Yun Hao, PhD

Postdoctoral Researcher / Flatiron Research Fellow

Simons Foundation

Rachit Kumar

MD/PhD Student

Medical Scientist Training Program

University of Pennsylvania