Peter Park

Peter Park is director of the HMS Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG) PhD program. His Computational Genomics group specializes in computational and statistical analysis of high-throughput sequencing data to understand genetic and epigenetic mechanisms related to disease processes, especially in cancer. Originally trained in applied mathematics, Park earned a PhD, from Caltech and was introduced to molecular biology and genetics during his postdoctoral studies in biostatistics. His laboratory has developed several algorithms for chromatin and genome analysis and has made major contributions to large NIH consortium projects such as the model organism ENCyclopedia of DNA Elements (modENCODE) and The Cancer Genome Atlas. He has also collaborated with dozens of experimentalists over the years to study a wide range of genetic and epigenetic phenomena and their alterations, both in humans and in model organisms. He is a member of the Division of Genetics at Brigham and Women's Hospital, co-leader of the Biostatistics and Computational Biology Program at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, and director of the Center for Stem Cell Bioinformatics at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.