Biography
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. He co-directed the Broad Institutes Program in Medical and Population Genetics, as well as the Broad Center for Mendelian Genomics, which sequenced the exomes, genomes, andor transcriptomes of over 10,000 individuals from families affected by severe Mendelian disease, resulting in over 3,000 new diagnoses for patients. He also led the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD) consortium, which produced the worlds largest catalogues of human genetic variation, now spanning DNA sequence data from over 800,000 people. Daniel returned to Australia in 2020 as the inaugural director of the newly formed Centre for Population Genomics.