Speaker

Hae Kyung Im is an Associate Professor in the Section of Genetic Medicine and the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago. She trained in Physics at the Instituto Balseiro, a center of excellence in Science and Engineering in Argentina, and later earned her PhD in Statistics from the University of Chicago. After exploring research in manufacturing and consulting in information security and finance, she found her calling in statistical genetics research. She develops methods to interpret high-dimensional genomic data for human health applications. Notably, she created PrediXcan to link variants to function by using predicted gene expression to nominate causal disease genes.

Bluesky: @hakyim

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