Aravinda Chakravarti

Aravinda Chakravarti
Aravinda Chakravarti in 2018
Born (1954-02-06) 6 February 1954 (age 70)[2]
Calcutta, India
Alma materIndian Statistical Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
AwardsWilliam Allan Award (2013)
Scientific career
FieldsGenetics
InstitutionsNew 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[1]  (1979)
Doctoral advisorMasatoshi Nei
Websitearavindachakravartilab.org

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.[3] He was the 2008 President of the American Society of Human Genetics.[2] Chakravarti became a co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Genome Research in 1995,[4] and of the Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics' in 2005.[5]

  1. ^ Chakravarti, Aravinda (6 March 2014). "2013 William Allan Award: My Multifactorial Journey". American Journal of Human Genetics. 94 (3): 326–333. doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2013.11.014. ISSN 0002-9297. PMC 3951947. PMID 24607382.
  2. ^ a b "On the cover: Aravinda Chakravarti". The American Journal of Human Genetics. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
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  5. ^ "Review of Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, Volume 6: 2005., Aravinda Chakravarti, Eric Green". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 81 (1): 61. 2006. doi:10.1086/503948. ISSN 0033-5770. JSTOR 10.1086/503948. Retrieved 11 February 2022.