About
Dr. Tamar Sofer
Tamar Sofer, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
I am a researcher focusing on genetic and omics analyses of diverse and complex populations. I did my PhD in Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and graduated at 2012. Then, I continued as a postdoctoral fellow there, and later became a research scientist at the Genetic Analysis Center at the University of Washington in Seattle. At UW, I worked on genetic association analyses in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos, and on analysis of whole genome sequencing data from the NHLBI's Trans-Omics in Precision Medicine initiative. In late 2017 I moved to BWH and Harvard University, where I continue to develop and implement methodology for genetic and omics analyses of sleep , cognitive, cardiopulmonary, and metabolic phenotypes, with the goal of understanding the genetic basis of such phenotypes, and how environmental exposures modify the pathways from genotypes to phenotypes.
Our Team on the Forefront of Research
Funding
Funding
Our lab is funded by several grants from the National Institute of Health.
We have grants related to genetics and multi-omics methods and analysis in diverse populations. Areas of focus include sleep, cognitive aging, hypertension, and diabetes.
Locations
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215
Center For Life Science
3 Blackfan St., Boston, MA 02115