Principal Investigator

Dustin Baldridge, MD, PhD

Dustin Baldridge, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Genetics and Genomic Medicine

Baldridge grew up in St. Louis, Missouri and completed his MD/PhD training at Baylor College of Medicine. He is a board-certified pediatrician conducting full-time translational genomics research in the Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine. He leads a team studying the overwhelming number of variants of uncertain significance (VUS) generated via exome and genome sequencing. He also serves as a co-investigator for the Washington University Model Organism Screening Center (wuMOSC) of the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN). Outside the lab he enjoys spending time with his children and traveling with his family.

Personnel

Michael Grupe, MS

Michael Grupe, MS

Research Lab Supervisor

Mike Grupe is originally from Nebraska. He has been in research labs at Washington University since 2017 after teaching biology at the high school level for 34 years. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, following the Cardinals, brewing beer and going to craft breweries and traveling to Wisconsin and Canada to see his children and grandchildren.

Emily Orr

Emily Orr

Staff Scientist

Jaeden Flury

Jaeden Flury

Postbaccalaureate Researcher

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