Prof Daniel MacArthur

Professor Daniel MacArthur is Director of the Centre for Population Genomics, based jointly at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne. He holds a conjoint Professorship in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales.

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. During his time in the US, Daniel co-directed both the Medical and Population Genetics Program and the Center for Mendelian Genomics at the Broad Institute.