Biography
Mark McCarthy is Executive Director of Human Genetics at Genentech, where he leads efforts within the company to use human genetics to advance the understanding of disease and further the development of novel therapeutic and preventative approaches. Prior to his move to the Bay Area in 2019, Mark was Robert Turner Professor of Diabetes Medicine at the University of Oxford. There, his research focused on genetic discovery in type 2 diabetes and related traits, and on using the causal insights derived from those analyses to drive biological inference and translational opportunities.