Associate Professor  |  Full Member

Linda Hiraki

Location
Hospital for Sick Children
Research Interests
Genetics, Epidemiology, Rheumatology
Research Themes
Population Health, Education
Accepting
Summer Undergraduate, MSc, PhD

If you're interested in joining Dr. Hiraki's lab, please contact Tiffany Lagman - tiffany.lagman@sickkids.ca

Research Synopsis

Dr. Hiraki’s current research interests include examining the genetic contribution to complex, rheumatic diseases and their associated long-term outcomes. She is applying methods that take advantage of rich, longitudinally collected clinical data along with both common and low-frequency genetic variants to discover new genetic associations with manifestations and complications of the complex disease. Hiraki is also employing novel methods to transethnic studies of admixed populations with complex diseases.  

She is also interested in using repeated measures to better characterize disease course, and identify both environmental and genetic risk factors for adverse outcomes in rheumatic disease.

Understanding the genes influencing the presentation and evolution of complex diseases like systemic lupus erythematosus will provide novel insights into disease mechanisms. This will in turn lead to improved disease outcomes via risk stratification, prevention, early intervention and new treatments.