Hilary Finucane, PhD

Hilary Finucane is a Member of Faculty at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital and a Associate Member of the Genetics Program in the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. She holds a BA from Harvard College in mathematics, an MSc from the Weizmann Institute of Science in theoretical computer science, and a PhD from MIT in applied mathematics. She did her PhD research in statistical genetics in the lab of Alkes Price, funded by a Hertz Foundation Fellowship, after which she started a research group at the Broad Institute as a Schmidt Fellow. She is also a recipient of the NIH Director’s Early Independence Award.