Dr. Peter Robinson
Professor
Computational Biology
Agilent
Japan
Biography
Dr. Robinson is well known for the development of the Human Phenotype Ontology, a standardized vocabulary of phenotypic abnormalities encountered in human disease, and he has created methods to identify a number of novel disease genes. Dr. Robinson studied mathematics and computer science at Columbia University and medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed training as a pediatrician at the Free University of Berlin and Charité University Hospital.
Research Interest
"Dr. Robinson focuses on the identification of enhancer mutations involved in various human diseases and conditions. His research will increase our understanding of the disease relevance of regulatory regions in the genome, as well as demonstrate the utility of targeted sequence capture for such studies," said Herman Verrelst, Agilent vice president and general manager, Genomics and Clinical Applications Division, and the executive sponsor of this award. "We are pleased to support Dr. Robinson's work in this important area," added Verrelst.
