Faculty

The PQG has over 50 faculty from multiple departments in HSPH, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Institute (DFCI), and the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences who have a broad spectrum of expertise in statistical genetics and genomics, bioinformatics and computational biology, genetic epidemiology, molecular biology and pharmacogenomics.

Name	Title/Affiliation	Research Keywords
Krishna Aragam	Preventive Cardiologist, Massachusetts General Hospital	Cardiovascular, Preventive Medicine, Precision Medicine, Heart Failure, Coronary Artery Disease, Population Genomics
Martin Aryee	Associate Professor, Department of Pathology MGH & Harvard Medical School Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health	Epigenetics, Cancer, Single Cell Analysis, Statistical Methodology, Genome Topology
Paul Avillach	Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, HMS Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital (Secondary); Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Secondary)	Disease Sub-typing, Rare Variant Analysis, Genome & Phenome Wide Association Studies (PheWAS & GWAS), Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), Electronic Health Records (EHR)
Deborah Blacker	Professor of Epidemiology Department of Epidemiology	Alzheimer’s Disease, Cognitive Decline, Family Samples, Population-based Samples, Alternative Phenotypes
Martha Bulyk	Professor of Medicine Brigham & Women’s Hospital Harvard Medical School	Transcription Factors, DNA Binding Sites, Transcriptional Enhancers, Technology Development, cis Regulatory Codes
Tianxi Cai	Professor of Biostatistics Department of Biostatistics	Prediction, Biomarker Evaluation, Survival Analysis, High Dimensional Data Analysis, Semi-parametric Methods
Kaifu Chen	Associate Professor; Director Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital	Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, cardiovascular, cancer, epigenomics, cell identity regulation
David Christiani	Elkan Blout Professor of Environmental Genetics Department of Environmental Health Department of Epidemiology	Molecular Epidemology, Gene-Environment Interactions, Environmental Genetics & Genomics, Biomarkers of Exposure, Susceptibility and Response to Environmental Exposures
Michael Cho	Associate Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School	Genome-wide Association, Disease Subtyping, Rare Variant Analysis, COPD, Lung
Rui Duan	Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	Electronic health records, precision medicine, real-world evidence, disparities, federated and transfer learning
Sean Eddy	Ellmore C. Patterson Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and of Applied Mathematics Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology	Genome Evolution, RNA Structure, Homology Search, Probabilistic Models, Computational Genomics
Yonatan Grad	Professor of Immunology & Infectious Diseases Department of Immunology & Infectious Diseases	Infectious Diseases, Bioinformatics, Microbial Genomics, Population and Epidemic Dynamics, Antibiotic Resistance
Alexander Gusev	Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School	Statistical genetics, regulatory genomics, germline-somatic interactions, precision medicine, complex traits
William Hanage	Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, HSPH	Infectious Diseases, Bioinformatics, Microbial Genomics, Population and Epidemic Dynamics, Antibiotic Resistance, Microbial evolution and population genetics
Kohei Hasegawa	Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital	Asthma, Bronchiolitis, Metabolome, Microbiome, Integrated omics analysis
Albert Hofman	Chair of the Department of Epidemiology Stephen B. Kay Family Professor of Public Health and Clinical Epidemiology Department of Epidemiology	Aging, Cohort Studies, Genetic Epidemiology, Genome-wide Association Studies, Neurological diseases
Gökhan Hotamisligil	J.S. Simmons Professor of Genetics & Metabolism Chair, Department of Molecular Metabolism Department of Molecular Metabolism Department of Nutrition
Yi-Hsiang Hsu	Assistant Professor Gerontology Division, Harvard Medical School Associate Director Genetic Epidemiology and OMICS Program, Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research and BIDMC	Metabolomics, Multivariate GWAS, Next-generation Sequencing, Statistical Genetics, Musculoskeletal Genetics & Bioinformatics
Frank Hu	Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology Department of Nutrition Department of Epidemiology	Type 2 Diabetes, Genome-wide Association Studies, Gene-environment Interactions, Nutrition, Lifestyle
Hailiang Huang	Instructor, Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital  Associated Scientist, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.	Statistical Genetics, Computational Biology, Autoimmune Disease, Psychiatric Disease, Multiethnic Genetic Analysis
David Hunter	Vincent L. Gregory Professor in Cancer Prevention Department of Epidemiology Department of Nutrition	Epigenetics, Cancer, Single Cell Analysis, Statistical Methodology, Genome Topology
Curtis Huttenhower	Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Department of Biostatistics and Immunology and Infectious Diseases	Microbiome, Computational Microbiology, Microbial Ecology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Computational Biology, Functional Genomics, Biological Network Analysis, Genomic Data Mining, Data Integration
Rafael Irizarry	Professor of Biostatistics Department of Biostatistics HSPH/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute	Applied Statistics, Epigenetics, Cancer Genomics, High-throughput Technology
Manolis Kellis	Professor of Computer Science at MIT in the area of Computational Biology	Disease Genomics, Epigenomics, Regulatory Genomics, Comparative Genomics, Cancer Genomics
Karestan Koenen	Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology Department of Epidemiology Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences	PTSD, Trauma, Genetics, Epidemiology, and Psychology
Christoph Lange	Professor of Biostatistics Department of Biostatistics	Family-Based Association Tests, Causal Methods in Genetics, Rare-Variant Analysis, Numerical Analysis, Genome-Wide Association studies
Phil H. Lee	Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital	Genomics, Systems Biology, Cross Disorder GWAS, Neuroimaging Genomics, Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis
Heng Li	Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School	Bioinformatics, Computational Genomics, Molecular evolution, Population genetics and Probabilistic
Liming Liang	Professor of Statistical Genetics Department of Epidemiology Department of Biostatistics	Statistical Genetics, Genetics of Gene Expression (eQTL mapping), High-throughput Sequencing, Population Stratification, GWAS
Xihong Lin	Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics	Rare variants and sequencing association studies, Integrative analysis of genetic and genomic data, Genes and environment, Analysis of massive exposure and phenotype data, Precision prevention and medicine
Jun Liu	Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics	Transcription Regulation, Bayesian Modeling, Monte Carlo
Po-Ru Loh	Associate Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School	Statistical genetics, bioinformatics, genome-wide association analysis, haplotype phasing, structural variation
Junwei Lu	Assistant Professor of Biostatistics Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	graphical model, generative AI, neurodegenerative diseases, medical imaging, reinforcement learning
Quan Lu	Cecil K. and Philip Drinker Professor of Environmental Physiology	Gene Silencing, Genome-wide Screening, Receptor Signaling, Ubiquitination
Rong Ma	Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	computational biology, single-cell analysis, multiomics, high-dimensional statistics, manifold learning
Franziska Michor	Professor Dept. of Biostatistics & Computational Biology HSPH & DFCI	Cancer Evolution, Mathematical Modeling, Cancer Stem Cells, Computational Cancer Genomics, Epigenomics
Jeff Miller	Associate Professor of Biostatistics Department of Biostatistics	Statistical methodology, Alzheimer’s disease, Cancer genomics, Aging, Model misspecification
Megan Murray	Professor of Epidemiology Department of Epidemiology	Tuberculosis, Host Susceptibility to Infectious Disease, Microbial Genetics, Epidemiology, Multi-disciplinary
Benjamin Neale	Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School Associate Member and Research Scientist Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit Center for Human Genetic Research Massachusetts General Hospital	Statistical Genetics, Gequencing, Heritability, Genome-wide Association, Complex Traits
Reiko Nishihara	Assistant Professor, Pathology, Harvard Medical School Brigham And Women’s Hospital	Cancer epidemiology, Cancer immunology, Genomic sequencing, Precision prevention, Prediction models
Luke O’Connor	Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, HMS	Statistical Genetics, Population Genetics, Functional Genomics, Genetic architecture, Computational methods
Shuji Ogino	Professor in the Department of Epidemiology Professor of Pathology Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital	Molecular Pathological Epidemiology (MPE), Immunology, Immuno-MPE, Pharmaco-MPE, Causal Inference – MPE Integration
Peter Park	Professor of Pediatrics Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School	Bioinformatics, whole-genome sequencing, structural variations, cancer genomics, chromatin structure
Giovanni Parmigiani	Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology Department of Biostatistics HSPH & DFCI	Cancer Genetics, Cancer Genomics, Individualized Cancer Risk Estimation, Medical Decision Making, Decision Theory
Chirag Patel	Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, HMS	Trans-ethnicity, disparities, electronic health records, gene x environment interactions, XWAS
Luca Pinello	Associate Professor of Pathology, MGH and HMS	genomics, genome editing, crispr, epigenetics, single-cell
Alkes Price	Professor of Statistical Genetics Department of Epidemiology Department of Biostatistics	Population and Medical Genetics, Genetic Ancestry and Admixture, Gene Expression, Resequencing
John Quackenbush	Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Department of Biostatistics HSPH & DFCI	Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics, Cancer, Systems Biology
Adrienne Randolph	Professor of Anesthesia and Pediatrics	Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Gene and Environment Interaction Genetic susceptibility to severe infections in childhood
Soumya Raychaudhuri	Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Professor in Genetics, University of Manchester Associate Member, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT	Genomics, Bioinformatics, Statistical Genetics, Autoimmune Disease, Immunology
Timothy Rebbeck	Professor of Cancer Epidemiology Department of Epidemiology	Molecular Epidemiology, Prostate Cancer, Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Biomarkers, Health Disparities
Susan Redline	Peter C. Farrell Professor of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School Senior Physician, Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Departments of Medicine and Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Physician, Division of Pulmonary Medicine	genetic epidemiology, sleep medicine, respiratory disease, sleep apnea
David Reich	Professor, Department of Genetics Harvard Medical School Associate, The Broad Institute	Population Genetics, Common Disease, Admixture, Human History, African Americans
Eric Rimm	Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition, HSPH Assistant Professor of Medicine, HMS and Channing Laboratory	Nutrition, Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Obesity, Alcohol, Lifestyle Modification
Chris Sander	Professor of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School	Cancer Genomics, Computational Cell Biology, Machine Learning, Precision Medicine, Structural and Evolutionary Biology
Joel Schwartz	Professor of Environmental Epidemiology Department of Environmental Health Department of Epidemiology	Gene Environment Interactions, Air Pollution, Metals, Longitudinal Studies, Epigenetics
Jordan Smoller	Director Psychiatric & Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Associate Professor of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School	Psychiatric Genetics, Association Studies, Phenotype Definition, GWAS, Pharmacogenetics, Genetic Epidemiology
Tamar Sofer	Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine-Beth Israel DeaconessHarvard Medical School	Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Gene and Environment Interaction Statistical Genetics, Genomics, and Omics, Sleep Epidemiology
Shamil Sunyaev	Professor Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine Brigham & Women’s Hospital/HMS	Human Genetics Variation, Analysis of sequencing data, Prediction of the functional effect of allelic variants, Computational proteomics, Mammalian organogenesis
Tyler VanderWeele	Professor of Epidemiology Department of Epidemiology Department of Biostatistics	Gene-gene and Gene-environment Interaction, Mendelian Randomization, Causal Methods in Genetics
Lee-Jen Wei	Professor of Biostatistics Department of Biostatistics	Construction and Validation of Prediction with Biomarkers
Scott Weiss	Professor in the Department of Environmental Health, HSPH Professor of Medicine, HMS & Channing Laboratory
Wei Zhou	Instructor, Broad Institute	Statistical genetics, Computational methods for genetic analysis in large biobanks, Disease progression, Multi-omics, Psychiatric genetics
Cheng-Zhong Zhang	Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, HMS	Cancer biology, Genome evolution, Single-cell analysis, Cell biology, DNA damage and repair