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Tselmen Daria is a clinical scientist and researcher with a strong passion for human genetics and its implications for human disease. She earned her medical degree from the Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and completed her doctoral training at Ulm University in Germany with support from a German government scholarship through the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Program). Her doctoral research led to the identification of a population‑specific haplotype associated with susceptibility to the neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in an isolated population. She subsequently completed a clinical fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), followed by a postdoctoral appointment as a bioinformatics fellow at the Gladstone Institutes of Data Science and Biotechnology at UCSF. Her research focuses on delineating the genetic architecture of complex traits—including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and dementia—with a strong emphasis on the inclusion of diverse populations. Through global research efforts, she aims to advance equity in genetic studies, particularly in understanding the genetics of metabolic dysfunction and its effects on a broad range of complex diseases. She is an Atlantic Fellow for Global Brain Health Equity.