Daniel completed his PhD at the University of Sydney before moving to postdoctoral studies at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, and then a faculty position at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Boston. He co-directed the Broad Institute’s Program in Medical and Population Genetics, as well as the Broad Center for Mendelian Genomics, which sequenced the exomes, genomes, and/or transcriptomes of over 10,000 individuals from families affected by severe Mendelian disease, resulting in over 3,000 new diagnoses for patients. He also led the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD) consortium, which produced the world’s largest catalogues of human genetic variation, now spanning DNA sequence data from over 800,000 people. Daniel returned to Australia in 2020 as the inaugural director of the newly formed Centre for Population Genomics.
The Centre for Population Genomics is a joint national initiative of Garvan Institute of Medical Research and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. The Institutes are national leaders in genomic research, with complementary strengths spanning large-scale genomics, data science, population health, and clinical impact.
The Centre for Population Genomics values diversity in our team and our work. We believe that including all human diversity in genomic research will empower medical care that benefits everyone.
We pay our respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to their Elders past and present. We gratefully accept the invitation in the Uluru Statement from the Heart “to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future”.
