Bridget Phillips

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Current advisor: Carlos Cruchaga, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Utah, 2021

Enrollment year: 2021

Research summary

Using transcriptomic (RNA-seq) data to better understand the pathobiology of Alzheimer’s disease.

Graduate publications
Beric A, Sahin S, Sanchez S, Yang Z, Kumar R, Alfradique-Dunham I, Sanford J, Western D, Phillips B, Budde JP, Perrin RJ, Kotzbauer PT, Perlmutter JS, Norris SA, Cruchaga C, Ibanez L. 2026 Study of blood linear RNA nominates CD55 and DLD as early-stage biomarkers for Parkinson’s sisease. Brain, ():Online ahead of print. PMCID:

Phillips B, Western D, Wang L, Timsina J, Sun Y, Gorijala P, Yang C, Do A, Nykänen NP, Alvarez I, Aguilar M, Pastor P, Morris JC, Schindler SE, Fagan AM, Puerta R, García-González P, de Rojas I, Marquié M, Boada M, Ruiz A, Perlmutter JS; Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN) Consortia; Ibanez L, Perrin RJ, Sung YJ, Cruchaga C. 2023 Proteome wide association studies of LRRK2 variants identify novel causal and druggable proteins for Parkinson’s disease. NPJ Parkinsons Dis, 9(1):107. PMCID: PMC10329646