Joseph Powell

Prof Joseph Powell is the Head of the Garvan-Weizmann Centre for Cellular Genomics, Head of the Computational Genomics Laboratory at the Garvan Institute for Medical Research, and a member of the Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales.

He currently holds a NHMRC Career Development Fellowship, with the highest ranked application in his round. He was awarded an NHMRC Research Excellence Award (2015) and the prestigious Commonwealth Health Minister’s Medal for Excellence in Medical Research (2016). His research is focused on understanding the functional mechanisms by which genetic variants contribute to disease susceptibility at a cellular level, and ultimately achieve therapeutic and diagnostic outcomes.