Associate Professor, Biostatistics

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Associate Professor of Medicine

Medicine-Beth Israel Deaconess

Harvard Medical School

 

Tamar Sofer is a researcher focusing on genetic and omics analyses of diverse and complex populations. She did her PhD in Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and graduated at 2012. Then, she continued as a postdoctoral fellow there, and later became a research scientist at the Genetic Analysis Center at the University of Washington in Seattle. At UW, Dr. Sofer worked on genetic association analyses in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos, and on analysis of whole genome sequencing data from the NHLBI's Trans-Omics in Precision Medicine initiative. In late 2017 she moved to BWH and Harvard University, where she continues to develop and implement methodology for genetic and omics analyses of sleep, cognitive, cardiopulmonary, and metabolic phenotypes, with the goal of understanding the genetic basis of such phenotypes, and how environmental exposures modify the pathways from genotypes to phenotypes.