Statistical Genetics Genomics Omics

The PQG has over 43 faculty from multiple departments in HSPH, Harvard Medical School and Dana Farber Institute (DFCI), 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
Edoardo Airoldi	Associate Professor of Statistics Department of Statistics	Statistical methodology, Systems-level analysis of regulation and signaling dynamics, Metabolism and cellular proliferation in yeast and cancer systems, Analysis of large biological and information networks, Alternative splicing, mistranslation and development
Rebecca Betensky	Professor of Biostatistics Department of Biostatistics	Latent Class Models, Complex Sampling, Truncation, Survival Analysis, Array Comparative Genomic Hybridization
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
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
Rafael Irizarry	Professor of Biostatistics Department of Biostatistics HSPH/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute	Applied Statistics, Epigenetics, Cancer Genomics, High-throughput Technology
Peter Kraft	Professor of Epidemiology Department of Biostatistics Department of Epidemiology	Statistical Methodology, Genome-wide Association Studies, Gene-environment Interaction, Risk Prediction, Cancer
Nan Laird	Harvey V. Fineberg Research Professor of Public Health Department of Biostatistics	Statistical Genetics, EM-Algorithm, Missing and Longitudinal Data, Meta-Analysis, Family-Based 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
Liming Liang	Associate 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	Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Biostatistics Chair, 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
X. Shirley Liu	Professor of Biostatistics & Computational Biology Department of Biostatistics HSPH & DFCI	Transcription and Epigenetic Regulation, Computational Cancer Genomics, ChIP-chip and ChIP-seq
Jeff Miller	Assistant Professor of Biostatistics Department of Biostatistics	Statistical methodology, Alzheimer’s disease, Cancer genomics, Aging, Model misspecification
Peter Park	Associate Professor of Pediatrics HMS Center for Biomedical Informatics Children’s Hospital Informatics Program	Chromatin, Epigenetics, Next-generation Sequencing, Cancer Genomics, Regulatory Networks
Luca Pinello	Principal Investigator, MGH and HMS	genomics, genome editing, crispr, epigenetics, single-cell
Soumya Raychaudhuri	Associate 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
David Reich	Professor, Department of Genetics Harvard Medical School Associate, The Broad Institute	Population Genetics, Common Disease, Admixture, Human History, African Americans
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
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
Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen	Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiologic Methods Department of Biostatistics Department of Epidemiology	Gene-environment Interaction, Genome-wide Association Studies, Confounding by Population Structure
Guocheng Yuan	Associate Professor of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics Department of Biostatistics HSPH & DFCI	Epigenomics, Stem Cells, Transcriptional Regulatory Network, Systems Biology