Return to list Joel Hirschhorn, PhD
- Investigator
Joel Hirschhorn, PhD
- Title
Concordia Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Director, Center for Basic and Translational Obesity Research, Boston Children’s Hospital- Department
Pediatrics (Genetics)
- Address
Enders 561
- Phone
617-919-2129
Joel.Hirschhorn@childrens.harvard.edu
- URL
http://www.childrenshospital.org/researchers/joel-hirschhorn
- Biography
Dr. Hirschhorn is studying the genetic basis of quantitative measures related to body size and certain common diseases. He studies DNA sequence variants, usually SNPs, and genotypes these variants in large, well-characterized patient samples.
- Research
Candidate gene studies of obesity guided by whole genome association data - 5R01 DK07578