Faculty

Shefali Setia Verma, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Graduate Group Affiliations

Contact information

D202, 3700 Hamilton Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Email:
Shefali.SetiaVerma@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Publications

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Education
B.Tech (Biotechnology)
Jaipur National University, 2008.
M.S. (Bioinformatics)
New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2011.
PhD (Bioinformatics and Genomics)
Penn State University, 2018.

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Selected Publications

Rasika Venkatesh, Tess Cherlin, Nicole Wayne, Rachit Kumar, Lindsay Guare, Venkata Singamneni, Brett Irving, Scott Dudek, Regeneron Genetics Center, Penn Medicine Biobank, Michael G. Levin, Shefali Setia-Verma*, Marie A. Guerraty*: Genome-Wide Association Study of Coronary Microvascular Disease assessed by cardiac perfusion Positron Emission Tomography converges on NF-кB pathway. Nature Cardiovascular Research. Nature Publishing Group UK, 5(555-564), June 2026.

Zou C, Mankowski WC, Pantalone L, Horng H, Setia Verma S, Mortani Barbosa EJ Jr, Cook TS, Noel PB, Carpenter EL, Thompson JC, Shinohara RT, Roshkovan L, Katz SI, Kontos D.: Transformer-based Fusion of Longitudinal Multimodal Radiomic Features from Chest Radiography and CT in COVID-19. Radiol Artif Intell. 8(3), May 2026.

Jagyashila Das, Pauline Gachanja, Aisha Sallah, Ankita Jain, Yogasudha Veturi, Rachel L. Kember, Shefali Setia Verma.: Sex and the Genome: Divergent Genetic Architecture Across the Human Lifespan. Annual Review Biomedical Data Science 9, May 2026.

Guerraty MA, Verma SS, Ko YA, McQuillan MA, Conlon DM, Tobias JW, Levin MG, Haury W, Zheng F, Cherlin T, Zhang C, Judy R, Tishkoff SA, Damrauer SM, Arany Z, Rader DJ. : Friend of GATA2 Variant Ser657Gly Is Associated With Coronary Microvascular Disease. Circ Genom Precis Med. 2(e005342), Apr 2026.

Humphries LA, Rush MA, Pollie M, Guare L, Okeh C; Penn Medicine BioBank; Verma SS, Senapati S: Diagnostic Disparities in Endometriosis and Adenomyosis: Investigating Social Vulnerability and Access to Care in an Ancestrally Diverse Population. J Minim Invasive Gynecol. 26, Feb 2026.

Rajagopalan A, Nguyen TA, Guare LA, Garao Rico AL, Venkatesh R, Caruth L; Regeneron Genetics Center; Penn Medicine BioBank; Verma A, Ritchie MD, Hall MA, Romano JD, Setia-Verma S.: DRIVE-KG: Enhancing variant-phenotype association discovery in understudied complex diseases using heterogeneous knowledge graphs. Pacific Symposium of Biocomputing Jan 2026.

Lee GJ, Jung SH, Lee J, Moon KW; Penn Medicine Biobank; Yun JS, Kim D. : Polygenic Risk Score Predicts Prostate Cancer Risk Independent of Type 2 Diabetes. Diabetes. Diabetes Obes Metab. 6(4991-5000), 06 2026.

Zhu Y, Ikuzwe Sindikubwabo AB, Bradford Y, Salowe R, Caruth L, Pham K, Laxmi M, Vrathasha V, Aibo MI, Lee R, Halimitabrizi M, Rosa ID, Ghaffari L, He J, Ritchie MD, O'Brien JM, Setia-Verma S.: Multimodal Prediction of Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma Using Polygenic Risk Scores and Clinical Features in a High-Risk African Ancestry Cohort. medrxiv 2026.

Guare LA, Das J, Caruth L, Rajagopalan A, Akerele AT, Brumpton BM, Chen TT, Kottyan L, Lin YF, Moreno E, Mulford AJ, Dombrovska MS, Luo Y, Rovite V, Sanders AR, Teerlink C, Candelieri D, Elhadad N, Hill A, Jarvik GP, Jaworski J, Lynch J, Namba S, Okada Y, Shi Y, Shirai Y, Shortt J, Wei WQ, Weng C, Yamamoto Y, Biobank PM, Genetics Center R, Meta-Analysis Initiative GB, Chapman S, Zhou W, Edwards T, Senapati S, Velez Edwards DR, Setia-Verma S.: Expanding the genetic landscape of endometriosis: Integrative -omics analyses implicate key genes and pathways in a multi-ancestry study of over one million women. Res Sq Dec 2025.

Huffman JE, Gaziano L, Al Sayed ZR, Judy RL, Raffield LM, Biddinger KJ, Charest B, Chopra A, Gagnon D, Guo X, Koledova V, Levin MG, Min YI, Pirruccello JP, Reza N, Ruan R, Verma SS, Venkatesh BA, Verma A, Yao J, Carr JJ, Casas JP, Cho K, Lima JAC, Post WS, Rader DJ, Ritchie MD, Shah A, Taylor KD, Terry JG, Rich SS, O'Donnell CJ, Phillips LS, Lunetta KL, Rotter JI, Wilson PWF, Gaziano JM, Damrauer SM; VA Million Veteran Program; Sun YV, Ellinor PT, Joseph J, Aragam KG.: An African ancestry-specific nonsense variant in CD36 is associated with a higher risk of dilated cardiomyopathy. Nature Genetics 57(11), Nov 2025.