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Stacey B Gabriel: World’s hottest researcher

Stacey B. Gabriel
Washington, (USA): Who is the hottest researcher of the world? Thomson Reuters, world’s biggest multinational media and information firm based in New York City, in a recently published report - The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds- named Stacey B Gabriel as hottest researcher of the world.

Stacey B Gabriel is currently the director of the genomics platform at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in the United States. She’s a global scientist with multiple hot papers – 23 in all – and tops the latest list of the world’s 3,215 highly cited researchers by Thomson Reuters.

The report says that the hottest-of-the-hot researchers fall within the area of Genomics. Stacey B Gabriel topped the list with 23 papers. The Broad Institute genomics platform director has research interests in using genomic techniques to understand the genetic component of common disease.

She is followed by Broad Institute colleagues Matthew Meyerson with 22 papers and Gad Getz with 21 papers, the same number as Richard K Wilson of Washington University. Broad’s Eric S Lander and Washington’s Elaine Mardis both authored 20 hot papers.

Stacey Gabriel- A brief bio

Stacey Gabriel is director of the Genomics Platform at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Under Gabriel’s guidance, the Genomics Platform explores, validates, optimizes, and implements new technologies, methods, and analysis tools to meet the needs of the Broad community. Gabriel and the members of her team are committed to pushing the boundaries of the genomic frontier through the application of operational excellence, advanced process design, data analysis and visualization, and technology development capabilities.

In addition to her activities with the Genomics Platform, Gabriel’s research interests lie in using genomic techniques to understand the genetic component of common disease. Gabriel joined the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research in 1998, where she successfully led the center’s contribution to the SNP Consortium Allele Frequency project.



Gabriel received her B.S. in molecular biology from Carnegie Mellon University and Ph.D. in human genetics from Case Western Reserve University.

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