Professional Bio
Eric R. Gamazon, PhD, MS, is an Associate Professor in the Division of Genetic Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology in the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
In 2018, he was elected to a Fellowship at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge with visiting posts in Medicine, MRC Epidemiology Unit, and MRC Biostatistics Unit. He is now a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, allowing him to participate in the intellectual life, including research and mentoring, of the post-graduate Cambridge college and facilitating his research collaborations in the UK and Europe.
He has authored or co-authored 180 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of functional genomics, statistical genetics, and complex traits genetics. He was a recipient of the inaugural Genomic Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2019. He has been an appointed member of the NIH Analytics and Statistics for Population Research Panel A (ASPA) (2022-2025) and the Biostatistical Methods and Research Design (2021-2022) study sections.
Dr. Gamazon leads an R01-funded interdisciplinary laboratory of computational scientists, molecular biologists, and physicists. His lab is a team of computational and wet lab researchers, reflecting diverse research interests. He develops and applies genomic and computational methods to investigate the genetic architecture of complex traits. He is interested in what can be learned from DNA sequence and multi-omics data about disease mechanism, therapeutic intervention, molecular evolution, and genome function.
An ongoing project involves understanding gene regulation across tissues and cell types to gain insights into disease mechanisms and therapeutic targets. He utilizes large-scale DNA biobank data linked to phenome-scale data, along with data science and computation, to identify genes involved in human health and disease in diverse populations, to discover novel biomarkers, and to enable a comprehensive systems view of the disease phenome.
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Education
MS - Mathmatics - University of Chicago, 1991
PhD - University of Amsterdam, 2016
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Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
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777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307