Daniel MacArthur

Director, Centre for Population Genomics, Garvan Institute of Medical Research

Professor Daniel MacArthur is founding Director of the Centre for Population Genomics, a joint initiative of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. In his previous role at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Daniel led the development of the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD), the largest collection of human DNA sequencing data in the world, which now includes >800,000 individuals and has been used in the analysis of over 2 million rare disease patients around the world. At the Centre for Population Genomics, Daniel leads a team of 40 working to build resources to create an equitable future for genomic medicine in Australia and beyond.