Kiran Garimella, M.S., D.Phil.
Director of Computational Biology, Data Sciences Platform; Institute Scientist
Kiran Garimella is director of computational biology in the Data Sciences Platform at the Ó³»´«Ã½ of MIT and Harvard, where he is also an institute scientist. Garimella has extensive experience in the development and application of cloud-based data processing methods and automated analyses for third-generation sequencing data. He currently leads the Data Sciences Platform’s Long Reads group, which aims to transform the genomics landscape by undertaking long-read sequencing of human and infectious disease genomes.
Garimella earned a D.Phil. in genomic medicine and statistics from the University of Oxford’s Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, and completed postdoctoral studies at the Oxford Big Data Institute. He currently co-chairs the NIH’s All of Us Long Read Working Group, which is undertaking the discovery and analysis of previously unseen variation in ~20,000 diverse individuals.
October 2023
