Dr. Elin Grundberg is a research faculty member at the Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine at Children’s Mercy Kansas City and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine. She holds the Roberta D. Harding & William F. Bradley, Jr. Endowed Chair in Genomic Research. Dr. Grundberg’s main area of investigation concerns obesity and metabolic complications and her team is applying next-generation sequencing approaches to understand genetic and environmental (epigenetic) factors underlying disease susceptibility.