William Anderson

Inside <em>HGG Advances</em>: A Chat with Thales Nepomuceno

Inside HGG Advances: A Chat with Thales Nepomuceno

Posted By: HGG Advances HGGA: what motivated you to start working on this project? TN: I have been involved in several BRCA1-related projects and what has always driven me is the clinical consequences of identifying carriers of BRCA1 germline pathogenic variants. These individuals are at substantially higher risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer than... Read More

Yosuke Tanigawa, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Computational Biology Lab at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Inside AJHG: A Chat with Yosuke Tanigawa

Posted By: Kylee Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KS: What motivated you to start working on this project? YT: As a researcher, it is important for me to think about this problem: what can you do to ensure the results and the benefits of your research are equally shared by everyone? It has been widely... Read More

Inside <em>AJHG</em>: A Chat with Maya Sabatello and Greta Goto

Inside AJHG: A Chat with Maya Sabatello and Greta Goto

Posted By: Kylee Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KS: What motivated you to start working on this project? MS and GG: There’s been much discussion about the underrepresentation of historically marginalized gender, racial and ethnic groups in precision medicine research and the ramification of this underrepresentation for health equity. We are a diverse team, all... Read More

Paul Okoro Data Scientist II. Marcus Institute for Aging Research – Harvard Medical School

Trainee Paper Spotlight: Paul Okoro

Transcriptome prediction performance across machine learning models and diverse ancestries Position: Data Scientist II. Marcus Institute for Aging Research – Harvard Medical School ASHG: Can you describe the type of research that has your primary focus?  Paul Okoro: My research centers on developing and utilizing data-driven integrated bioinformatics and statistical frameworks. Specifically, I work on... Read More