David M. Howard, Ph.D.
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2018 Young Investigator Grant
David M. Howard, Ph.D.
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Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow
Kings College London / University of Edinburgh
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David completed a PhD in Quantitative Genetics at the Roslin Institute before working as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Division of Psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh. In March 2019 he moved to King’s College London as a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Research Fellow with his research focussing on using genetic data to stratify depression. David has also been awarded a NARSAD Young Investigator grant from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation.
David has experience in genome-wide association studies, Mendelian randomization, polygenic risk scores, and haplotype-based analyses.
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