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Dr. Andrea Horimoto

Andrea Horimoto, PhD has joined the Department of Genetics as an Assistant Professor.

Dr. Horimoto earned her BS in Animal Science (1994), Specialization in Animal Science (1997), Masters in Animal Science (2005), and PhD in Science/Population Genetics (2009) from University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.  She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Sao Paulo Medical School in 2013.  She then joined the Heart Institute, Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology at the same institution (2013-2018).  Dr. Horimoto served as a Visiting Scientist in the Statistical Genetics Lab (2016-2017) and the Department of Biostatistics (2018-2019) at University of Washington, where she became Acting Instructor (2019-2022) before joining Harvard Medical School as a Research Associate and Brigham and Women’s Hospital as a Senior Research Scientist (2022-present).

Dr. Horimoto’s research focuses on population genetics, genetic epidemiology, and statistical genetics approaches to the study of human genetics. She has been involved in applying and extending statistical methods, developing pipelines, and using bioinformatics tools for the identification of genetic variants underlying complex diseases and traits in admixed and homogeneous populations by primarily using high dimensional genomic data. Her research involves large cohorts and biobank datasets, including the All of Us study, the Million Veteran Program, the Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project, the Women’s Health Initiative, and the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos for the study of complex diseases, such as cardiovascular, Alzheimer’s and chronic kidney diseases. She is also involved in genetic studies in several Latin American cohorts including admixed Brazilian individuals.