Po-Ru Loh, PhD

Biography

Po-Ru Loh is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and leads a statistical genetics research group in the BWH Division of Genetics. His lab develops and applies efficient computational tools for analyzing genetic variation within biobank cohorts for effects on human health and disease. Originally trained as a mathematician, he developed an interest in human genetics as well as in algorithm design during his graduate studies. He and his lab have made contributions in genome-wide association analysis, haplotype phasing, and the study of inherited and somatic genomic structural variants and their influences on human health.