Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson [1] is a molecular medical geneticist who conducts genetic and functional analyses downstream of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for various human traits, including cancer, immune and infectious diseases.
[2] Her dissertation was titled Strategies for identification of susceptibility genes in complex autoimmune diseases.
[3] Marta Alarcon-Riquelme was her doctoral advisor and Juha Kere was an opponent of her dissertation.
[2] Prokunina-Olsson joined the Laboratory of Translational Genomics (LTG) of the division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG) as a research fellow in June 2008.
[2] Prokunina-Olsson explores the connections between the genome-wide association studies (GWAS)-identified genetic susceptibility variants and molecular phenotypes of importance for cancer.