Gilad Evrony, PhD profile page

Dr. Gilad Evrony is an assistant professor at NYU School of Medicine’s Center for Human Genetics and Genomics, and the Departments of Pediatrics and Neuroscience & Physiology. He received his undergraduate degree in brain and cognitive sciences from MIT and completed an MD and PhD at Harvard Medical School. In his graduate research, he led the development of single-cell genomics technologies that discovered diverse somatic mutations in the human brain. For this work, he was recognized by several awards, including the ‘Eppendorf & Science Magazine Prize for Neurobiology’, the MIT Technology Review ‘Top Innovators Under 35’ award, and a Pew Foundation Biomedical Scholars award. He completed pediatrics residency at Mount Sinai Hospital and subsequently launched his laboratory at NYU. His basic research focuses on somatic mutations, and he also founded and directs an Undiagnosed Diseases Program that identifies genetic diagnoses for children with severe illnesses that are unsolved despite extensive prior medical evaluations.