Aravinda Chakravarti
Aravinda Chakravarti | |
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Aravinda Chakravarti in 2018 | |
| Born | 6 February 1954 |
| Education | Indian Statistical Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston |
| Awards | William Allan Award (2013) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Genetics |
| Institutions | New York University, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, University of Pittsburgh |
| Thesis | The Utility of Linked Marker Genes in Genetic Counseling (1979) |
| Doctoral advisor | Masatoshi Nei |
| Website | aravindachakravartilab |
Aravinda Chakravarti (born 6 February 1954, Calcutta) is a human geneticist and expert in computational biology, and Director of the Center For Human Genetics & Genomics at New York University. He was the 2008 President of the American Society of Human Genetics. Chakravarti became a co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Genome Research in 1995, and of the Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics' in 2005.