Aravinda Chakravarti

Aravinda Chakravarti (born 6 February 1954, Calcutta) is a human geneticist and expert in computational biology, and Director of the Center For Human Genetics & Genomics at New York University. Chakravarti became a co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Genome Research in 1995,

Early life and education Aravinda Chakravarti was born in Calcutta in 1954, his family's third son. Their childhood revolved around the importance of education, receiving his PhD in human genetics from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in 1979. Chakravarti took a postdoctoral position at the University of Washington in Seattle until 1980.

Chakravarti has a wife, Dr. Shukti Chakravarti, and two daughters, Priya and Indira. His wife works at NYU as a professor, his daughter Priya is a special educator for Baltimore County Public Schools, and his daughter Indira works in public health at U. Penn.

Career Chakravarti was a member of the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh from 1980 – 1993. In 1994 he joined the faculty of Case Western Reserve University as the James H. Jewell Professor of Genetics.

Research Chakravarti has made contributions to human genetics in areas including population, statistical genetics, and the genetics of complex disease. He has developed important genomics methods that are now used worldwide, such as linkage disequilibrium mapping,

Chakravarti helped to identify the genetic mutation involved in cystic fibrosis and discovered a genetic variant related to autism. His methods have been used to identify recombination hotspots in hemoglobinopathies. demonstrating that the disease is caused by mutations of multiple genes. HSCR is now considered a model for the study of complex disease, in part due to Chakravarti's development of experimental techniques. 2015, Member, National Academy of Sciences 2014, Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science 2008, Member, Indian Academy of Sciences 2007, Member, US National Academy of Medicine

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