Eric Schadt

Eric is Dean for Precision Medicine, Director of the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Chair of the Department of Genetics and Genomics Sciences, and the Jean C. and James W. Crystal Professor of Genomics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY. He is an expert on the generation and integration of very large-scale sequence variation, molecular profiling, and clinical data in disease populations for constructing molecular networks that define disease states and link molecular biology to physiology. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers in leading scientific journals and contributed to a number of discoveries relating to the genetic basis of common human diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and Alzheimer’s disease. Prior to joining Mount Sinai in 2011, Eric was Chief Scientific Officer at Pacific Biosciences and held senior positions at Rosetta Inpharmatics, a subsidiary of Merck & Co., and Roche Bioscience. Eric received his BA in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from California Polytechnic State University, his MA in Pure Mathematics from UC Davis, and his Ph.D. in Bio-mathematics from UCLA (requiring Ph.D. candidacy in Molecular Biology and Mathematics).