Exposome: decoding human health and diseases | Chirag Patel | TEDxSanFrancisco
Chirag Patel |
TEDxSanFrancisco
• October 2019
The genome was said to code life, but that's not the entire story in health. In this insightful talk, Chirag Patel asks us to think beyond the Human #Genome Project. He is advocating for a Global #Exposome Human Project to decode human #health and #disease scalably.
Dr. Patel is a biomedical scientist and an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. His long-term research goal is to address problems in human health and disease by developing computational and bioinformatics methods to reproducibly and efficiently reason over high-throughput data streams, spanning from molecules to populations.
Filmed at TEDxSanFrancisco: Dare To Know on October 3rd, 2019, at the Herbst Theatre.
#Science #DataScience #Biobank Dr. Patel is a biomedical scientist who received his doctorate in biomedical informatics from Stanford University. Since then, Patel's group aims to dissect inter-individual differences in human phenomes through strategies that integrate data sources which capture the comprehensive clinical experience (e.g., through the electronic medical record), the complex phenomena of environmental exposure (e.g., high-throughput measures of the exposome), and inherited genomic variation.
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