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Po-Ru Loh

Po-Ru completed a B.S. in Mathematics at Caltech and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at MIT with Bonnie Berger. He then trained as a postdoc in Statistical Genetics with Alkes Price at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Once upon a time, Po-Ru competed in math olympiads, the Putnam...

ASHG 2017 plenary talk + Epstein Award finalist

Po-Ru Loh's abstract on clonal hematopoiesis in the UK Biobank (with key collaborator Giulio Genovese) has been selected for a plenary talk at the 2017 American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) conference and as a finalist for the Charles J. Epstein Trainee Awards.

Research

We solve computational challenges in biomedical research that require statistical or algorithmic innovations. Much of our work is aimed at unlocking the full power of biobank-scale genetic data sets now becoming available (e.g., N=500,000 UK Biobank). To this end, we develop high-performance open...

Hello world!

Po-Ru Loh has started a faculty position at Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School.

Burroughs Wellcome Fund CASI grant

Po-Ru Loh has been awarded a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface for his research applying statistical phasing methods to detect chromosomal abnormalitiies in blood DNA.

Contact

Positions We will have open positions in 2022 for postdocs and students with very strong computational and/or mathematical background, especially those with C/C++ programming experience or previous research experience in statistical genetics. Please send your CV and a brief statement of your...