Ben Strober
Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBen Strober is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and a principal investigator at Boston Children's Hospital with a decade of expertise in computational health informatics and statistical genetics. He develops probabilistic and multimodal omics models that trace the cascade from DNA variants to molecular phenotypes and clinical traits, aiming to uncover actionable disease mechanisms and refine diagnoses in rare and complex cases. Trained with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins and a postdoc at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, he blends rigorous methodology with translational focus. His work is notable for integrating rich clinical data with transcriptomic and proteomic layers to inform precision-medicine interventions. Colleagues value his ability to move from theoretical models to experimentally testable hypotheses, often revealing context-specific genetic regulation overlooked by conventional approaches. Based in Boston, he combines deep quantitative skills with a commitment to solving real-world clinical problems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityYorktown high school
Github Skills (21)
seq10
genetic10
rna-seq9
genomics8
bioinformatics8
annotations7
outlier-detection5
reader-writer4
reader3
meta-analysis3
decomposition3
python-interface3
java3
topological-data-analysis2
factor-analysis2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
BennyStrobes/surge
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 release, 28 commits, 27 pushes in 10 months
BennyStrobes/ipsc_cardiomyocyte_differentiation
Nov 2018 - Jul 2020
Contributions:1 release, 53 commits, 49 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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