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Joel Hirschhorn
CitizenshipAmerican
EducationHarvard Medical School
AwardsE. Mead Johnson Award from the American Pediatric Society (2011)
Scientific career
FieldsHuman genetics
InstitutionsBoston Children's Hospital
Broad Institute
Harvard Medical School
Thesis Genetic and molecular analysis of histones and SNF/SWI proteins: Effects on chromatin structure and transcription in Saccharomyces cerevisiae  (1995)
Doctoral advisorFred Winston
Other academic advisorsEric S. Lander

Joel Naom Hirschhorn is an American human geneticist, pediatrician, and endocrinologist. He is an institute member of the Broad Institute, as well as the Concordia Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Genetics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He has had his own laboratory at Boston Children's Hospital since 2001.[1] He is known for his research on the genetics of complex human traits, such as height.[2][3]

Hirschhorn is the son of Kurt and Rochelle Hirschhorn, both of whom are also human geneticists.[4] Joel attended Harvard College, where he received his A.B. in biochemistry before receiving his Ph.D. and M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He did his Ph.D. research on chromatin structure and transcription in yeast with Fred Winston. After receiving his Ph.D., he did his postdoc on genetic association studies at the Whitehead Institute's Center for Genome Research with Eric Lander.[1]

In 2006, Hirschhorn was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation.[5] In 2011, he received the American Pediatric Society's E. Mead Johnson Award.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Joel Hirschhorn". Broad Institute. 2015-07-06. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
  2. ^ Park, Alice (2014-10-05). "New Genes Found that Determine Your Height". Time. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
  3. ^ Harris, Richard (2017-02-01). "Which Genes Make You Taller? A Whole Bunch Of Them, It Turns Out". NPR. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
  4. ^ Hirschhorn, Kurt; Hirschhorn, Rochelle; Hirschhorn, Joel N. (2017-08-31). "A Conversation with Kurt and Rochelle Hirschhorn". Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics. 18 (1): 31–44. doi:10.1146/annurev-genom-080316-090927. ISSN 1527-8204.
  5. ^ "Joel N. Hirschhorn, MD, PhD". The American Society for Clinical Investigation. Retrieved 2018-08-13.
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