John Quackenbush, PhD
Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Computational Biology & Biostatistics
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
John Quackenbush is Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and Professor at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. John’s PhD was in Theoretical Physics but a fellowship to work on the Human Genome Project led him through the Salk Institute, Stanford University, and The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), before joining Harvard in 2005. Dr Quackenbush’s research uses massive data to probe how many small effects combine to influence our health and risk of disease. His published work has more than 89,000 citations and among his honors are recognition in 2013 as a White House Open Science Champion of Change and election in 2022 to the National Academy of Medicine. In 2012 he founded Genospace, a precision medicine software company that was sold to Hospital Corporation of America in 2017.
