Archives: Profiles

Isabel Fulcher

Isabel Fulcher recently obtained her PhD in Biostatistics from Harvard University and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Data Science Initiative. Isabel’s research aims to develop innovative causal inference methodologies to improve the delivery of sexual and reproductive health care to at-risk populations. Her statistical interests include the development of causal inference methods that account for […]

Laurent Francioli

Laurent Francioli is a senior research scientist at Vertex Pharmaceuticals in San Diego, California. Prior to joining Vertex, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in Daniel MacArthur’s lab at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute. He has a Master’s degree in computer science from the Swiss Institute of Technology in Lausanne (Switzerland) and a doctorate […]

Konrad Karczewski

Konrad Karczewski is a computational biologist researching the prevalence and impact of loss-of-function variation in healthy human genomes and their impact on human phenotypes.

Kumar Veerapen

Dr. Kumar Veerapen completed his undergraduate degree in molecular biotechnology in and subsequently, was faculty at UCSI University, Malaysia. In 2016, Kumar completed his PhD in Human Genetics and Genomics at the University of Miami. His dissertation work focused on understanding the genetic etiology of preterm deliveries. He then moved on to Massachusetts General Hospital and […]

Dan Felsky

Daniel Felsky received his PhD in Medical Science from the University of Toronto in 2015 using neuroimaging and genetics to study risk for Alzheimer’s disease. His ongoing research is focused on dissecting the complex genomic contributors to resilience in aging, specifically those factors that act to protect an aging brain from the damaging effects of chronic […]

Emily Slade

Emily Slade is a recent graduate from the PhD program in biosta- tistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her broad re- search interests are in statistical genetics and missing data. She loves teaching and also enjoys collaborating with researchers on a wide variety of public health topics through Harvard’s Biostatistics Stu- dent […]

Carla Márquez-Luna

Carla is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. She completed her Ph.D. in Biostatistics at Harvard University in 2018. Her doctoral research focused on the development of methods that leverage functional annotations and multiethnic data to improve polygenic risk prediction. Carla holds a Bachelor’s […]

Aarón Sonanbend

Aarón is a PhD student in the Biostatistics department at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is focused on semi- supervised statistical methods to find optimal dynamic treatment regimes, using electronic health records data. Prior to the PhD Aarón worked in Evercore, a Private Equity Fund, and in Mexico’s Central Bank. Aarón […]

Alejandro Reyes

Alejandro is a computational biologist interested in analytical strategies to transform big data into knowledge. He has a PhD degree from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and is an alumnus of the UNAM’s Genomics Undergraduate program. Alejandro is currently a joint postdoctoral fellow between Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Harvard Chan T.H. School of Public […]

Reem Waziry

Dr. Reem Waziry is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in clinical epidemiology and a curriculum development fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is a medical doctor and holds an MPH in Epidemiology and a PhD in Medicine. Her research focuses on biological aging and related diseases, concentrating on strokes and […]