Tesfaye Mersha

Tesfaye Mersha is Lecturer at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, focusing on genomic underpinnings of asthma, allergic diseases, and health disparities. His research integrates multi-omics data to develop ancestry-specific polygenic risk scores and machine learning models for pediatric asthma prediction.

Research areas:

• Genetic basis of racial disparities in asthma
• Bioinformatic tools for admixed populations
• COVID-19 outcome disparities
• Transcriptomic risk modeling

Developed computational methods for analyzing multi-ancestry genomic data. Contributes to studies on environmental influences on childhood asthma.