Dr. Elina Misicka was a CWRU post-doctoral fellow supported by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society Postdoctoral Fellowship and was co-mentored by Drs. Farren Briggs and Dana Crawford. Elina earned her PhD from CWRU and was awarded the 2022 Doctoral Excellence Award in Epidemiology and Biostatistics for her dissertation titled Understanding drivers of age at onset and risk conferred by obesity in multiple sclerosis.
Previous Positions
Crawford Post-doctoral Fellow (2023-2024)
Biostatistician III, The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (2024-2025)
Recent Publications
- Misicka, E, Huang, Y, Loomis, S, Sadhu, N, Fisher, E, Gafson, A, Runz, H, Tsai, E, Jia, X, Herman, A et al.. Adaptive and Innate Immunity Are Key Drivers of Age at Onset of Multiple Sclerosis. Neurol Genet 2024; 10 (3): e200159. PubMed PMID:38817245 PubMed Central PMC11139017.
- Misicka, E, Gunzler, D, Albert, J, Briggs, FBS. Characterizing causal relationships of visceral fat and body shape on multiple sclerosis risk. Mult Scler Relat Disord 2023; 79 : 104964. PubMed PMID:37659350 PubMed Central PMC10873055.
- Misicka, E, Davis, MF, Kim, W, Brugger, SW, Beales, J, Loomis, S, Bronson, PG, Briggs, FB. A higher burden of multiple sclerosis genetic risk confers an earlier onset. Mult Scler 2022; 28 (8): 1189-1197. PubMed PMID:34709090 .
- Misicka, E, Sept, C, Briggs, FBS. Predicting onset of secondary-progressive multiple sclerosis using genetic and non-genetic factors. J Neurol 2020; 267 (8): 2328-2339. PubMed PMID:32333165 .
- Agnew, AM, Murach, MM, Dominguez, VM, Sreedhar, A, Misicka, E, Harden, A, Bolte, JH 4th, Kang, YS, Stammen, J, Moorhouse, K et al.. Sources of Variability in Structural Bending Response of Pediatric and Adult Human Ribs in Dynamic Frontal Impacts. Stapp Car Crash J 2018; 62 : 119-192. PubMed PMID:30608995 .