Kaitlin Samocha, PhD

Kaitlin (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Genomic Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Associated Scientist at the Broad Institute. The focus of her research career has been on developing methods and statistical tools to improve the interpretation of genetic variation, particularly rare variation. This work has included a sequence-context based mutational model, frameworks to evaluate de novo (newly arising) variation, and metrics to quantify selective constraints against damaging variation.