Euan Ashley, MD, PhD, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Genetics, and Biomedical Data Science; Associate Dean, Stanford University

Research Description: Dr. Ashley’s research group lies at the intersection of biology, medicine, engineering and computer science. They try to solve difficult problems in medicine through collaboration and technology innovation. They are focused on the science of precision medicine. They built some of the earliest algorithms for the interpretation of human genome data for clinical medicine. They applied these approaches to individuals and families, optimized them for rapid turnaround, and most recently applied long read sequencing to maximize our yield in the application of genomics to rare disease. They have a computational group of predominantly bioinformatics, genetics, computer science and statistics students, postdocs, and staff. Beyond the lab, he directs the Stanford Medicine Clinical Genomics Program. He has experience helping to lead a Common Fund initiative, as past co-chair of the Undiagnosed Diseases Network. At Stanford, he also has the privilege of directing the Biomedical Data Science Initiative which aims to bring together engineers, scientists, statisticians, mathematicians and even physicists in the pursuit of creative solutions to quantitative biomedical problems. He is especially interested through my human genetics work to understand patients with novel mutations driving obesity and metabolic disease and how Mendelian rare diseases including monogenic obesity syndromes provide insight into the complex genetics of obesity and metabolic disease. Dr. Ashley serves on the Stanford NORC Internal Advisory Committee (IAC). He also collaborates extensively with many members of the NORC.