People
Bogdan Pasaniuc
Professor of Genetics; Director of Center for Computational Biomedicine
bogdan.pasaniuc@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Bogdan Pasaniuc Website
Bogdan develops statistical and computational methods to understand the genetic basis of disease, focusing on integrative genomics, heritability and population structure. Bogdan is professor of genetics and director of the center for computational biomedicine at Penn. Prior to Penn, Bogdan was professor of computational medicine; human genetics; and pathology and laboratory medicine at UCLA. Bogdan trained at the Harvard School of Public Health and in the Program in Medical and Population Genetics at the Broad Institute in the group of Alkes Price. Prior to that, Bogdan completed a postdoc at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, CA. Bogdan obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Connecticut working in the lab of Ion Mandoiu and B.Sc. from the Faculty of Computer Science, “A.I. Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania in 2003.
Shannon M. Gray
Genetic Counselor
shannon.gray@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Shannon Gray received her Bachelor of Science in Molecular Genetics and Zoology from the Ohio State University in 2020. After graduation, she worked for two years as a clinical research assistant studying melanoma at the James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute. She then went on to complete her Master of Science in Genetic Counseling from the University of Pennsylvania in 2024. She currently works as a genetic counselor in the Center for Adult-Onset Hearing Loss and the Center for Computational Biomedicine at Penn Medicine.