Gonçalo Abecasis
Gonçalo Abecasis | |
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Abecasis giving a keynote speech at ISMB | |
| Born | Gonçalo Rocha Abecasis May 8, 1976 |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Alma mater | University of Leeds University of Oxford |
| Spouse | Cristen Willer |
| Children | 5 |
| Awards | Overton Prize (2013) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Bioinformatics Computational biology Biostatistics |
| Institutions | University of Michigan |
| Thesis | Methods for fine mapping complex traits in human pedigrees (2001) |
| Doctoral advisor | William Cookson |
| Doctoral students | Mingyao Li |
| Website | www |
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Works at Regeneron | |
Gonçalo Rocha Abecasis (born 1976) is a Portuguese American biomedical researcher at the University of Michigan, serves as Vice President & Chief Genomics and Data Science Officer at the Regeneron Genetics Center, and was chair of the Department of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health. He leads a group at the Center for Statistical Genetics in the Department of Biostatistics, where he is also the Felix E. Moore Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics and director of the Michigan Genomic Initiative. His group develops statistical tools to analyze the genetics of human disease.