Eric Schadt Biography

Dr. Eric Schadt recently joined Mount Sinai Medical School as the Chair Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and as Director Institute of Genomics and Multiscale Biology (effective 1 August 2011). Previously Dr. Schadt joined Pacific Biosciences as Chief Scientific Officer in June 2009 to oversee the scientific strategy for the company including creating the vision for next-generation sequencing applications of the company’s technology. Dr. Schadt is also a founding member of Sage Bionetworks an open access genomics initiative designed to build and support databases and an accessible platform for creating innovative dynamic models of disease. Dr. Schadt’s current efforts were motivated by the genomics and systems biology research he carried out at Merck to elucidate common human diseases and drug response using novel integrative genomics approaches based on genetic and molecular profiling data. His research helped revolutionize a field in statistical genetics (the genetics of gene expression) has energized the systems biology field and has led to a number of discoveries relating to the causes of common human diseases. As of earlier this year greater than 50% of all new drug discovery programs at Merck in the metabolic space were derived from Dr. Schadt's work. Dr. Schadt also holds an affiliate professor position in the Departments of Medical Genetics and Biostatistics at the University of Washington in Seattle and he was recently appointed as Fellow to the Institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology Imperial College London. Dr. Schadt received his B.S. in applied mathematics/computer science from California Polytechnic State University his M.A. in pure mathematics from UCD and his Ph.D. in bio-mathematics from UCLA (requiring Ph.D. candidacy in molecular biology and mathematics).

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