Chief Data Officer and Institute Scientist
Co-Director, Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Anthony Philippakis is the chief data officer of the Broad
Institute of MIT and Harvard, and the co-director of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center.
He trained as a cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, with
a focus on rare genetic cardiovascular diseases. At the Broad Institute he is
the founding director of the Data Sciences Platform, an organization of over
200 software engineers and computational biologists that develops software for
analyzing genomic and clinical data. In addition to his roles at the Broad
Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Philippakis is a venture partner at
GV, focusing on machine learning, distributed computing, and genomics.
Philippakis received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and
completed a Ph.D. in biophysics at Harvard. As an undergraduate, he studied
mathematics at Yale University, and later completed the Part III (equivalent to
M.Phil.) in mathematics at Cambridge University.
Chief Data Officer and Institute Scientist
Co-Director, Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Anthony Philippakis is the chief data officer of the Broad
Institute of MIT and Harvard, and the co-director of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center.
He trained as a cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, with
a focus on rare genetic cardiovascular diseases. At the Broad Institute he is
the founding director of the Data Sciences Platform, an organization of over
200 software engineers and computational biologists that develops software for
analyzing genomic and clinical data. In addition to his roles at the Broad
Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Philippakis is a venture partner at
GV, focusing on machine learning, distributed computing, and genomics.
Philippakis received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and
completed a Ph.D. in biophysics at Harvard. As an undergraduate, he studied
mathematics at Yale University, and later completed the Part III (equivalent to
M.Phil.) in mathematics at Cambridge University.
Journal article
Disparities in data underlying clinical genomic interpretation is an acknowledged problem, but there is a paucity of data demonstrating it. The All of Us Research Program is collecting data including whole-genome sequences, health records, and surveys for at least a million participants with diverse ancestry and access to healthcare, representing one of the largest biomedical research repositories of its kind. Here, we examine pathogenic and likely pathogenic variants that were identified in the...
Journal article
Comprehensively mapping the genetic basis of human disease across diverse individuals is a long-standing goal for the field of human genetics^(1-4). The All of Us Research Program is a longitudinal cohort study aiming to enrol a diverse group of at least one million individuals across the USA to accelerate biomedical research and improve human health^(5,6). Here we describe the programme's genomics data release of 245,388 clinical-grade genome sequences. This resource is unique in its diversity...
