Shefali Setia Verma, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Instructor, Perelman School of Medicine
Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Graduate Group Affiliations
Contact information
D202, 3700 Hamilton Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Publications
Education:
B.Tech (Biotechnology)
Jaipur National University, 2008.
M.S. (Bioinformatics)
New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2011.
PhD (Bioinformatics and Genomics)
Penn State University, 2018.
Permanent linkB.Tech (Biotechnology)
Jaipur National University, 2008.
M.S. (Bioinformatics)
New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2011.
PhD (Bioinformatics and Genomics)
Penn State University, 2018.
Selected Publications
Stefanie N Hinkle, Chelsea C Okeh, Ernesto Ulloa-Pérez, Ashika Mani, Eve J Higginbotham, Rosemary Thomas, Matthew D Kearney, Corrinne Fahl, Enrique F Schisterman, Shefali S Verma, Roy Hamilton, Sunni L Mumford: Perceptions of institutional engagement and inclusion by sexual orientation and gender identity. JAMA Network Open. American Medical Association, 8(6): e2513772-e2513772, June 2025.Lammi V, Nakanishi T, Jones SE, Andrews SJ, Karjalainen J, Cortés B, O'Brien HE, Ochoa-Guzman A, Fulton-Howard BE, Broberg M, Haapaniemi HH, Kanai M, Pirinen M, Schmidt A, Mitchell RE, Mousas A, Mangino M, Huerta-Chagoya A, Sinnott-Armstrong N, Cirulli ET, Vaudel M, Kwong ASF, Maiti AK, Marttila MM, Posner DC, Rodriguez AA, Batini C, Minnai F, Dearman AR, Warmerdam CAR, Sequeros CB, Winkler TW, Jordan DM, Rešcenko R, Miano L, Lane JM, Chung RK, Guillen-Guio B, Leavy OC, Carvajal-Silva L, Aguilar-Valdés K, Frangione E, Guare L, Vergasova E, Marouli E, Striano P, Zainulabid UA, Kumar A, Ahmad HF, Edahiro R, Azekawa S; Long COVID Host Genetics Initiative; FinnGen; VA Million Veteran Program; MexGen-COVID Initiative; DBDS Genomic Consortium; GEN-COVID Multicenter Study; PHOSP-COVID Collaborative Group; GENCOV Study; Estonian Biobank Research Team; Luoh SW, Erikstrup C, Pedersen OBV, Lerner-Ellis J, Colombo A, Grzymski JJ, Ishii M, Okada Y, Beckmann ND, Kumari M, Wagner R, Heid IM, John C, Short PJ, Magnus P, Ansone L, Valenti LVC, Lee SA, Wain LV, Verdugo RA, Banasik K, Geller F, Franke LH, Rakitko A, Duncan EL, Renieri A, Tsilidis KK, de Cid R, Niavarani A, Abner E, Tusié-Luna T, Verma SS, Smith GD, Timpson NJ, Madduri RK, Cho K, Daly MJ, Ganna A, Schulte EC, Richards JB, Ludwig KU, Marks-Hultström M, Zeberg H, Ollila HM.: Genome-wide association study of long COVID. Nature Genetics 57(6): 1402-141, June 2025.
Sykes A, Caruth L, Setia Verma S, Hoshi T, Deutsch C.: Disease-associated Kv1. 3 variants are energy compromised with impaired nascent chain folding. bioRxiv (Accepted in Molecular Biology) Feb 2025.
Abramowitz, Sarah A; Boulier, Kristin; Keat, Karl; Cardone, Katie M; Shivakumar, Manu; DePaolo, John; Judy, Renae; Bermudez, Francisca; Mimouni, Nour; Neylan, Christopher; : Evaluating Performance and Agreement of Coronary Heart Disease Polygenic Risk Scores. JAMA 333(1): 60-70, Jan 2025.
Nicole Wayne, Venkata S. Singamneni, Rasika Venkatesh, Tess Cherlin, Shefali S. Verma, Marie A. Guerraty: Genetic Insights Into Coronary Microvascular Disease. Microcirculation 32(1), January 2025.
VAaron Sykes, Lannawill Caruth, Shefali Setia Verma, Toshinori Hoshi, Carol Deutsch: Disease-associated Kv1.3 variants are energy compromised with impaired nascent chain folding. Biorxiv January 2025.
Wayne N, Singamneni VS, Venkatesh R, Cherlin T, Verma SS, Guerraty MA. : Genetic Insights Into Coronary Microvascular Disease. Microcirculation 32(1): e12896, Jan 2025.
Abramowitz SA, Boulier K, Keat K, Cardone KM, Shivakumar M, DePaolo J, Judy R, Bermudez F, Mimouni N, Neylan C, Kim D, Rader DJ, Ritchie MD, Voight BF, Pasaniuc B, Levin MG, Damrauer SM; Penn Medicine BioBank. : Evaluating Performance and Agreement of Coronary Heart Disease Polygenic Risk Scores. JAMA 333(1): 60-70, Jan 2025.
Cayabyab, Mari, Karl Keat, Jean De Dieu Ndayishimiye, Glenda Hoffecker, Abigail Doucette, Peter Gabriel, Shefali Verma, and Sony Tuteja.: The frequency of CPIC level A/B drug prescribing in patients with cancer: a case for pharmacogenetic (PGx) panel testing. PHARMACOGENETICS AND GENOMICS 35(1), 21-22 2025.
Rasika Venkatesh, Tess Cherlin, Nicole Wayne, Rachit Kumar, Lindsay Guare, Venkata Singamneni, Brett Irving, Scott Dudek, Regeneron Genetics Center, Penn Medicine Biobank, Michael G. Levin, Shefali Setia-Verma*, Marie A. Guerraty*: Genome-Wide Association Study of Coronary Microvascular Disease assessed by cardiac perfusion Positron Emission Tomography converges on NF-кB pathway. medrxiv 2025.