Our Team

Alisa Knodle Manning, PhD

Investigator

Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit (CTEU)

Massachusetts General Hospital

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Associate Member

Metabolism Program

Broad Institute

Associate Member

Center of Genomic Medicine

Massachusetts General Hospital

Sarah Hsu, MS

Sarah is a computational biologist interested in applying computational methods to analyze genomic and genetic data in diabetes research. Her current projects focus on understanding type 2 diabetes using omics and genetics approaches as the harmonization of phenotype data from biobanks.

Magdalena Sevilla-Gonzalez, PhD

Dr. Magdalena Sevilla-Gonzalez is an Instructor at the Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and an affiliate at the Metabolism Program at the Broad Institute. Dr. Sevilla’s research interest lies in the intersection between environmental, genetic data, and multi-omics (metabolomics and gut microbiome) to better understand type 2 diabetes heterogeneity and create precision nutrition approaches. Dr. Sevilla-Gonzalez has led clinical translational projects focused on the clinical characterization of Mexican individuals with high genetic risk of metabolic diseases.

Dr. Sevilla-Gonzalez was recently awarded a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from the NIDDK (K99 DK139461) for her project “Integration of dietary factors and multi-omic signatures of genetic subtypes to understand diabetes heterogeneity.” Her recent first-author publications include “Multi-omic signatures of genetic mechanisms inform on type 2 diabetes biology and patient heterogeneity” (medRxiv, 2026) and “Precision prevention in type 2 diabetes” (BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care, 2025).