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Michael Wainberg is an Assistant Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, and an Investigator at the Prosserman Centre for Health Research. His research focuses on brain disorders through the lenses of statistical genetics and machine learning. Wainberg's lab applies statistical and computational methods to large biomedical datasets to identify genetic causes of brain diseases, aiming to discover novel drug targets. His work investigates the landscape of genetic variants linked to brain diseases by leveraging significant population-scale biobanks such as the UK Biobank and disease-specific cohorts. His lab also emphasizes the identification of causal genetic variants and their associated genes and cell types in relation to brain diseases, utilizing advancements in single-cell omics to decode complex molecular signatures. Additionally, Dr. Wainberg has a background as a Banting postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University and received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Toronto.
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