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Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Genetic Medicine
Department of Medicine
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Eric R. Gamazon, PhD, MS, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Genetic Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (2018), a Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge and holds an honorary scientist post in the university's MRC Epidemiology Unit. Trained in Biostatistics (Statistical Genetics), Mathematics, and Genomics at the University of Chicago and University of Amsterdam, He has authored or co-authored 140 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of statistical genetics, functional genomics, and complex traits genetics. He is on the Editorial Board of the journal Circulation Research, the official journal of the American Heart Association. 

Dr. Gamazon’s primary research interest is in developing and extending methods for elucidating the genetic architecture of complex disorders and pharmacologic phenotypes. He utilizes large-scale DNA biobank data linked to electronic health records, 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. An ongoing project involves the genetics of gene expression and the use of expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) to expand on genetic association studies. Another project includes modeling the transcriptional regulatory programs in the brain, in collaboration with human geneticists, neuroscientists, and evolutionary biologists.

Dr. Gamazon is part of the GTEx Consortium and the T2D-GENES Consortium. He was also a member of the International Warfarin Pharmacogenetics Consortium GWAS team. This work has obvious relevance to understanding the molecular basis of neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. He is a recipient of the inaugural Genomic Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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