Daniel MacArthur | |
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| Citizenship | Australian |
| Education | University of Sydney |
| Known for | Genome Aggregation Database, 1000 Genomes Project |
| Awards | American Society of Human Genetics Early Career Award, European Society of Human Genetics Award |
Daniel Geoffrey MacArthur is an Australian geneticist who is currently serving as the director of the Centre for Population Genomics (CPG) in Darlinghurst, Australia. [1]
MacArthur completed his undergraduate and PhD in biomedical science at the University of Sydney before moving to postdoctoral studies at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK. [1] During this time, MacArthur was involved in the 1000 Genomes Project. [2] He then took up a faculty position at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Boston to build a new research team in a recently established department led by Mark Daly. [3] During his time at the Broad Institute, led the development of the Exome Aggregation Consortium (ExAC) - later known as The Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD) - in 2014. [4] gnomAD is now the world's largest publicly available collection of human DNA variation, spanning over 800,000 individuals. [5]
MacArthur left the Broad Institute as he moved to Australia to lead the CPG, a joint initiative between the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, in 2020. [6]