Assistant Investigator Neurology, Mass General Research Institute

Assistant Professor of Neurology Harvard Medical School

PhD University of Bonn 2016

alzheimer's disease; biostatistics; statistical genetics; whole genome sequence data Dmitry Prokopenko, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the Genetics and Aging Research Unit, McCance Center for Brain Health, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. His current research interests focus on the genetics of Alzheimer’s disease and statistical and computational problems in large-scale whole genome sequencing and other -omics data. This includes rare variant studies, multi-omics studies, gene-by-environment, and gene-by-gene interaction studies. During and after his PhD, he made several major contributions in both: large- scale whole genome sequencing (WGS) analyses and method development for such analyses. Those contributions included methods to account for population structure using rare variants in WGS and several large-scale WGS studies of different phenotypes. Dr. Prokopenko performed one of the first large-scale WGS-based studies to identify novel genes associated with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and driven by rare variants.