Biography:Alkes Price

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Short description: American geneticist
Alkes Price
Born
Alkes Long Price
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania
AwardsHarvard School of Public Health Outstanding Faculty Mentor of the Year Award (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsStatistical genetics
InstitutionsHarvard School of Public Health
ThesisPacking densities of layered patterns (1997)
Doctoral advisorHerbert Saul Wilf
Doctoral studentsHilary Finucane

Alkes Long Price is an American statistical geneticist. He is Professor of Statistical Genetics in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), where he also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Biostatistics. In addition, he is an associate member of the Broad Institute's Program in Medical and Population Genetics and a member of the HSPH Program in Quantitative Genomics.[1] In 2017, he received the Outstanding Faculty Mentor of the Year Award from the Harvard School of Public Health.[2]

Education

Price received a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1992,[3][4][5] and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997.[6]

References

  1. "Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics PhD Program". http://dms.hms.harvard.edu/big/fac/Price.php. 
  2. Boston, 677 Huntington Avenue; Ma 02115 +1495‑1000 (2017-09-25). "Contributions of postdocs, research associates celebrated" (in en-us). Harvard School of Public Health. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/postdocs-research-associates-celebrated/. 
  3. "Teenage wunderkindkind advances to U". https://www.thedp.com/article/1992/06/teenage-wunderkindkind-advances-to-u. 
  4. "11 and 9, They're Set to Take University by Degrees". 5 May 1985. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-05-05-mn-8454-story.html. 
  5. "Whiz Kids, Brothers 11 and 9, Set Sights on University of Chicago". https://apnews.com/article/b2289b97d5c961672da3a6314ed7d546. 
  6. Price, Alkes Long (1997-01-01). Packing densities of layered patterns (Ph.D. thesis). University of Pennsylvania.

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