Aaron Quinlan, Ph.D.

Dr. Quinlan is a Professor and Chair of Human Genetics, as well as the Associate Director of the Utah Center for Genetic Discovery. He specializes in computational genomics and the creation of data integration tools. Over the years, Dr. Quinlan has developed several widely used software packages for large-scale genome analyses and studies of human diseases. His research group applies these methods across various contexts of human disease. Currently, Dr. Quinlan is focused on developing new strategies to derive insights into diseases by examining genetic variations found among millions of human genomes.