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Gaddy Getz

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Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School
📍 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Gaddy Getz is a Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and a distinguished leader in cancer genomics. He directs bioinformatics and computational analysis groups at the Broad Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital, focusing on analyzing genomic alterations in cancer. He earned his PhD in physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science.

He was a co-leader and key figure in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project, a landmark program that has comprehensively characterized the genomes of thousands of tumors across many cancer types.

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Experience
22 Years
Current Role
Professor of Pathology
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Cancer Genomics
His career is dedicated to studying the genetic and genomic changes in cancer, leading major computational analysis groups at the Broad Institute and MGH.
Computational Biology
He directs bioinformatics at the MGH Cancer Center and is actively hiring computational biologists and postdocs for his lab, indicating a focus on talent development.
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Career

Work history

6-2018
Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
5-2013 - 5-2018
Associate Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
1-2013
Director of Bioinformatics, Cancer Center and Dept. of Pathology
Massachusetts General Hospital
1-2011
Director of Cancer Genome Computational Analysis
Broad Institute
1-2007 - 2-2011
Senior Computational Biologist - Leader of cancer genome analysis
Broad Instistute of MIT and Harvard
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Education
11-1998 - 12-2003
PhD
Weizmann Institute of Science
10-1992 - 10-1998
MSc
Tel Aviv University
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