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Rajat Gupta

Rajat Gupta

Dr. Gupta is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Associate Member at the Broad Institute and cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His research is focused on identifying new mechanisms of vascular disease using human genetic and genomic data. He has identified the distal regulation of Endothelin-1 as a mechanism of coronary artery disease by functionally interrogating the 6p24 GWAS locus. His independent laboratory in the Division of Genetics has recently identified functionally distinct populations of endothelial cells using droplet-based single cell RNA-sequencing. Dr. Gupta trained in Human Genetics as a post-doctoral fellow in the Kathiresan Lab at the Broad Institute. He completed clinical training in cardiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. He has been awarded the 2019 New Innovator Award from the NIH for his project, “A Genetic Approach to Identify the Common Mechanisms of Vascular Disease.”