CV

Christian A. Porras, Ph.D. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Center for Disease Neurogenomics ORCID · Download full CV (PDF)

Education

M.D./Ph.D., Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai — Ph.D. defended September 2025 (advisors: Panos Roussos, MD, PhD; Donghoon Lee, PhD)
B.A., Biological Sciences, The University of Chicago — Quantitative Biology specialization, with honors (advisor: John Novembre, PhD)

Co-Principal Investigator, EHHOP CHARTS, East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership (2025–present)
MD Candidate, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (2020–present)
Primary Reviewer / Board Member, ISMMS Institutional Review Board (2023–2026)

Steiner MC, Rice DP, Biddanda A, Ianni-Ravn MK, Porras C, Novembre J. Study design and the sampling of deleterious rare variants in biobank-scale datasets. PNAS. 2025.
Choi SW, García-González J, Ruan Y, Wu HM, Porras C, Johnson J, Hoggart CJ, O’Reilly PF. PRSet: Pathway-based polygenic risk score analyses and software. PLoS Genetics. 2023.
Porras C, Lee D, Vicari JM, Spencer C, Pjanic M, Wang X, et al. Plasticity of human microglia and brain perivascular macrophages in aging and Alzheimer’s disease. medRxiv. 2023.

Full publication list, presentations, teaching, leadership, and awards are in the full CV (PDF).