Sudha K. Iyengar

Sudha K. Iyengar, PhD, is Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, with additional professorial appointments in Genetics & Genome Sciences and Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences. She directs an interdisciplinary laboratory that identifies genes underlying complex eye, kidney and speech-sound disorders using large-scale genomic and computational approaches.

Education: Details of degrees and institutions are not provided in the supplied text.

Research interests span genetic epidemiology of multifactorial disease, genomics of age-related macular degeneration, Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy, diabetic retinopathy, speech-sound disorders, and development of statistical methods for high-density genomic data.

Her recent publications (2018-2019) concentrate on GWAS and multi-ethnic meta-analyses for diabetic retinopathy, AMD progression, refractive error, cataract, and longitudinal outcomes of childhood speech disorders, reflecting a portfolio that integrates big-data genomics with clinical and population sciences.

Professional service & grants: Principal Investigator on multiple NIH R01 awards (NEI, NIDCD) and VA Million Veteran Program project, member of NIH study sections and editorial boards, and active grant reviewer for international agencies.

Mentoring: Over her CWRU career she has mentored 7 PhD students and 4 post-doctoral fellows, many now holding faculty positions with NIH funding.