Dr. Melina Claussnitzer: Genetics, Causality, and Metabolic Disease

The Aging Initiative is pleased to announce a translational research speaker event with Professor Melina Claussnitzer, an Institute Member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. At the Broad, Dr. Claussnitzer directs Scientific Strategy for the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Genomic Mechanisms of Disease and serves as Director of the Broad Diabetes Initiative.
Dr. Claussnitzer’s research focuses on bridging metabolic disease genetics and causal target discovery. She pioneered the variants-to-function (V2F) framework, which systematically converts GWAS-associated risk loci into…

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