Renato Polimanti
Renato Polimanti, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science at the Yale School of Medicine and Associate Professor of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health.
Professor Polimanti is also Associate Director for Scientific and Technical Operations of the Clinical Epidemiology Research Center at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System. Polimanti’s primary research interest is to apply big data analytics to molecular, clinical, and imaging data to understand the biology and the epidemiology of human traits and disease and to develop tools to improve the healthcare of diverse population groups. His ongoing studies are supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and One Mind.
During his 15-year career, Polimanti contributed to more than 200 peer-reviewed publications including 42 as first author, 68 as senior author, and two as sole author. His group is also involved in large collaborative projects, including the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium and the Million Veteran Program. Polimanti is a recognized expert in applying genetically informed causal inference approaches such as Mendelian randomization to large-scale datasets to dissect complex networks of pleiotropic effects linking human traits and diseases.
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