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David Altshuler, MD, PhD Professor of Genetics and of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital; Director, Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT

Dr. Altshuler's laboratory studies human genome sequence variation and the inherited basis of common diseases. Dr. Altshuler has been a leader in the SNP Consortium, International HapMap Project, and 1000 Genomes Project; public-private partnerships that created genome-wide maps of human genetic diversity and made possible genome wide association studies. Dr. Altshuler's group has identified over 30 common genetic variants that influence risk of type 2 diabetes, cholesterol levels, prostate cancer, autism, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. Dr. Altshuler is a Distinguished Clinical Scholar of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, a councilor of the American Society of Clinical Investigation, a member of the Advisory Council of the National Institutes of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, and member of the board of reviewing editors for the journal Science. Professor Altshuler is one of four Founding Members of The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, a unique research collaboration of Harvard, MIT, The Whitehead Institute, and the Harvard Hospitals.

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