Brian Steffen
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Credentials
PhD, MSCR
Credentials
PhD, MSCR
Assistant Professor, Division of Computational Health Sciences
Biography
Bio
Awards & Recognition
- 2020 Minnesota Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Prevention Training Grant (PI: A. Folsom)
- 2020 University of Minnesota School of Public Health, J.B. Hawley Research Award (PI: Steffen)
- 2014 Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis Young Investigator Award
- 2006 American Heart Association, Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award (PI Fellow: Steffen)
Education
- MS, Clinical Research, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota—Twin Cities, MN
- PhD, Physiology, Department of Medical Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Missouri - Columbia, MO
- BS, Organismal Biology, University of Kansas—Lawrence, KS
Research Summary
- Identifying proteomic risk factors of cardiometabolic disease and adverse surgical outcomes
- Conducting Mendelian randomization to determine potential causality between exposure and outcome variables
- Applying these techniques to medicine and surgery to determine whether assessing plasma proteome at pre-op may predict adverse outcomes