Lais Osmani, MD, BA

Lais grew up in Newton, MA. He graduated from Boston University in 2010. After college, he worked on the COMBREX (Computational Bridges to Experiments) project which sought to accelerate microbial genome annotation through collaboration between computational and experimental biologists. He then attended the University of Illinois College of Medicine and graduated in 2015. He completed a Pathology residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital, during which time he was involved in identifying the antigen specificity of the monoclonal immunoglobulin in patients with Schnitzler syndrome. He most recently completed a second residency in Internal Medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. During this time, he investigated the role of neutrophils in lupus nephritis. He is interested in leveraging omics data to study the pathogenesis and heterogeneity of autoimmune diseases and to identify potential therapeutic targets.