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Runjun Kumar is an Assistant Professor and the Assistant Director of Germline Genetics at UW Medicine. He specializes in clinical genetics and molecular pathology, focusing on the development and deployment of clinical-grade genetic testing, including exome and genome sequencing. His research interests encompass the development of bioinformatic methods for interpreting somatic and germline variants, optimizing genetic test utilization for patients and hospitals, and analyzing large '-omics' datasets. Dr. Kumar has extensive training in molecular genetic pathology, having completed his fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine and residency in pediatrics genetics at the same institution. He holds both an MD and PhD in Computational Biology from Washington University in St. Louis and an HBSc in Pathology and Statistics from the University of Toronto. His clinical subspecialty is in molecular genetic pathology, and he is board certified in both Medical Genetics & Genomics and Pediatrics.
University of Washington • Seattle, WA
Assistant Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology.
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