Carlos D. Bustamante

Biography

 Dr. Carlos D. Bustamante, Ph.D., serves as a Member of Medical Advisory Board at Medical Technologies Unlimited Inc. Dr. Bustamante has advised multiple companies, non-profits and government bodies in the past including Mars, Inc., Ancestry.com, the National Human Genome Research Institute and the Carlos Slim Foundation. Dr. Bustamante serves as Member of Scientific Advisory Board at Ancestry.com LLC. Dr. Bustamante serves as a Member of Clinical & Scientific Advisory Board at Personalis, Inc. He served as a Member of Advisory Board at InVitae Corporation. He served as a Member of Medical Advisory Board at Med-Tek, LLC. Since 2010, he has been on the faculty in the Department of Genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. From 2002 to 2009, he served on the faculty at Cornell University in the Departments of Statistical Sciences and Biology Statistics and Computational Biology where he was promoted to full professor in 2008. During his time as a faculty member at Cornell and Stanford, he has trained close to 50 post-doctoral fellows and graduate students as primary advisor. Dr. Bustamante has since moved his laboratory to Stanford, where he works, advancing the knowledge base available to scientists and medical providers alike. Dr. Bustamante is a population geneticist whose research focuses on analyzing genome wide patterns of variation within and between species to address fundamental questions in biology, anthropology and medicine. His research accomplishments include developing both “selection maps” of the human genome which pinpoint rapidly evolving genes and a high-density map of genetic variation in the dog genome; he has also investigated the role of copy number variation in a family of immunity genes as it manifests itself in simian AIDS progression. 

Research Interest

 His most current research focuses on human population genomics and global health including developing resources for enabling trans- and multi-ethnic genome-wide associations and medical sequencing studies of common human diseases. He has received multiple honors and awards including the Sloan Research Fellowship (2007) and a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship (2010). He was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute pre-doctoral fellow from 1998 to 2001. He completed his postdoctoral training in mathematical genetics at the University of Oxford from 2001 to 2002. He earned his BA in Biology in 1997, M.S. in Statistics in 2001 and Ph.D. in Biology in 2001 from Harvard University.