Daniel MacArthur
Daniel MacArthur | |
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| Citizenship | Australian |
| Education | University of Sydney |
| Known for | Genome Aggregation Database, 1000 Genomes Project |
| Awards | American Society of Human Genetics Early Career Award, European Society of Human Genetics Award |
Daniel Geoffrey MacArthur is an Australian geneticist who is currently serving as the director of the Centre for Population Genomics (CPG) in Darlinghurst, Australia.
Education and career
[edit]MacArthur completed his undergraduate and PhD in biomedical science at the University of Sydney before moving to postdoctoral studies at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK.[1] During this time, MacArthur was involved in the 1000 Genomes Project.[2] He then took up a faculty position at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Boston to build a new research team in a recently established department led by Mark Daly.[3] During his time at the Broad Institute, led the development of the Exome Aggregation Consortium (ExAC) - later known as The Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD) - in 2014.[4] gnomAD is now the world’s largest publicly available collection of human DNA variation, spanning over 800,000 individuals.[5]
MacArthur left the Broad Institute as he moved to Australia to lead the CPG, a joint initiative between the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, in 2020.[6]
Awards
[edit]- American Society of Human Genetics Early Career Award (2017)[7]
- European Society of Human Genetics Award (2025)[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Our Leaders - Centre for Population Genomics". Centre for Population Genomics. Retrieved June 24, 2025.
- ^ "A Systematic Survey of Loss-of-Function Variants in Human Protein-Coding Genes". Science. February 17, 2012. Retrieved June 25, 2025.
- ^ "Daniel MacArthur - ESHG Conference 2025". ESHG. Vienna, Austria. Retrieved June 24, 2025.
- ^ "About gnomAD". gnomAD. Retrieved June 24, 2025.
- ^ "P138: Evaluating the impact of gnomAD v4 on genetic prevalence estimates*". Science Direct. 2024. Retrieved June 25, 2025.
- ^ "Professor Daniel MacArthur". Garvan Institute. Darlinghurst, NSW. Retrieved June 24, 2025.
- ^ "ASHG Past Award Recipients". American Society of Human Genetics. Rockville, Maryland. Retrieved June 24, 2025.
- ^ "Daniel MacArthur - ESHG Conference 2025". ESHG. Vienna, Austria. Retrieved June 24, 2025.