Rick Kittles , PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago

 

Kittles’ research focus is to formally evaluate the genetic contributions to complex diseases. His work entails understanding how genetic variation differs across human populations and how that variation contributes to inter-individual variation in disease susceptibility and other phenotypes such as drug response and skin color.

His interests also include biological and socio-cultural issues related to “Race” and health disparities and the utility of admixture mapping for genes for common traits and disease in African Americans and Hispanic Americans.

Kittles received his bachelor's degree in biology from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and his PhD in biology from George Washington University.