Claire Churchhouse is the scientific advisor to Ben Neale at the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she is an institute scientist. She plays a vital role in driving the group's scientific program of devising and deploying scalable analytic approaches to uncover and understand the genetic risk factors of severe psychiatric disorders. She brings scientific and strategic direction to a wide portfolio of projects that includes sequencing-driven studies of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, and the systematic investigation of large-scale biobanks to better understand the role of genetic variation in common disease more broadly. A member of the leadership team of the Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit at MGH, Churchhouse works alongside principal investigators to develop the scientific direction of the unit, identify areas for potential collaboration and opportunity, and manage operations across the program.
