David Reich (geneticist)
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| Website | https://reich.hms.harvard.edu |
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| Fields | Genetics |
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| Thesis | Genetic analysis of human evolutionary history with implications for gene mapping |
| Doctoral advisor | David B. Goldstein |
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David Emil Reich (born in 1973 or 1974) is a geneticist whose research focuses on finding complex genetic patterns that cause susceptibility to common diseases among populations. He is professor in the department of genetics at the Harvard Medical School, and an associate of the Broad Institute. Reich was highlighted as one of Nature’s 10 for his contributions to science in 2015. He received the Dan David Prize in May 2017.
Reich grew up as part of a Jewish family in Washington, D.C. His parents are novelist Tova Reich (sister of Rabbi Avi Weiss) and Walter Reich, a professor at George Washington University, who served as the first director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. David Reich started out as a sociology major as an undergraduate at Harvard College, but later turned his attention to physics and medicine. After graduation, he attended University of Oxford, originally with the intent of preparing for medical school.
Reich received a BA in physics from Harvard University and a PhD in zoology from the University of Oxford, St. Catherine's College. He joined Harvard Medical School in 2003. Reich is currently a geneticist and professor in the department of genetics at Harvard Medical School, and an associate of the Broad Institute, whose research studies compare the human genome with those of chimpanzees, Neanderthals and Denisovans.
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