Journal of Pharmacogenomics & Pharmacoproteomics

Kelan Tantisira

Biography

Kelan G Tantisira is an Assistant Professor in Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, USA. he earned his  MPH on Quantitative Methods at Harvard School of Public Health Boston.  Additionally, he run a pediatric asthma clinic as part of the Partners Asthma Centers at the Brigham and Womens Hospitals Brookside Community Health Care Center.he has written more than 80 article.

Research Interest

My primary research interest is the determination of how genetic variants interact with environmental factors resulting in a complex trait. As a result of my training and experiences, I have chosen asthma as the model complex trait for my work. To support this global perspective, my research at the Channing Laboratory has focused on epidemiologic studies to evaluate environmental determinants of asthma as well as specific studies of asthma genetics. I have active research interests in several areas, including factors influencing the natural history of asthma, early life determinants of asthma susceptibility, the obesity/asthma relationship, and effects of volcanic smog on respiratory health. Careful elucidation of risk factors resulting from these epidemiologic studies can provide an impetus for continued work involving the genetic contribution to asthma, given a specific environmental risk factor, or vice versa.