Tushar Bhangale

Senior Scientist, OMNI Human Genetics

Postdoc Mentor

Years at Genentech

After completing my PhD and postdoctoral work in the area of Human Statistical Genetics, I joined Genentech in 2009 due to its unique environment of extraordinary basic science research coupled with outstanding translational expertise. Here I use my technical background to analyze the wealth of in-house and external genetic datasets to discover new targets and biomarkers for neurodegenerative and neuroinflammatory diseases.

Postdoctoral Mentor

Genentech’s Postdoctoral Program offers a rare opportunity to perform cutting-edge basic research in a highly collaborative environment with world class intellectual resources and infrastructure. I am interested in recruiting postdoctoral students to perform computational work integrating data from genetic association and functional genomics studies to better understand disease biology, characterize disease heterogeneity, and predict complex traits.

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My main focus is on leveraging Human Genetics for target and biomarker discovery in Neuroscience. To this end we analyze data from our clinical trials, in-house experiments, Genomewide association studies, and large biobanks (e.g. UK Biobank). We work closely with the experimental scientists for functional follow-up of new discoveries from genetic studies and evaluation/development of targets.

My group also works on developing the analysis infrastructure used by Human Genetics Department where we implement the latest technics for analysis of large-scale sequencing data, genetic association analysis, and integration of results with other types of data e.g. eQTL, functional genomics experiments, gene networks.

University of Washington Seattle, PhD in Bioengineering – 2006
Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, Masters in Biomedical Engineering – 2000
University of Mumbai , Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery – 1998

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Tushar Bhangale

Senior Scientist, OMNI Human Genetics

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