UWMUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison · Mathematics & Statistics
Childhood Asthma Research Lab
Guanhua Chen · Madison, Wisconsin
Research Focus
Dr. Guanhua Chen's lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison focuses on studying childhood asthma by analyzing the complex relationship between the microbiome and host genetics. They work with large datasets from infants to understand how these factors contribute to asthma risk and severity. The lab develops innovative statistical methods to improve our understanding of these interactions and hopes to inform new treatment strategies for asthma.
childhood asthmamicrobiomehost geneticsstatistical methodsasthma treatment
Research Aims
3AIM 01Develop statistical methods to detect associations between host genetics and the infant microbiome.
AIM 02Identify interactions between genotype and microbiome that influence childhood asthma.
AIM 03Uncover the causal relationships of microbiome on childhood asthma risks.
Skills the Lab Values
data analysisgenome-wide association studieshigh-throughput sequencingstatistical modelingbioinformaticsdata visualization
Output against the department
Publications286top 39% of dept.51st of 131
this lab
most publishedleast published
Citations6.8kbottom 47% of dept.70th of 131
this lab
most citedleast cited
Career totals from OpenAlex, compared against labs that share a department. A department spans everything from one paper to tens of thousands, so bar heights are on a log scale — otherwise the largest lab would flatten every other bar to a line.