Jennifer Asimit
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJennifer Asimit is an Assistant Professor and statistical geneticist with over 15 years of research experience and nine years of focused professional experience developing methods to dissect genetic architecture of complex traits. Based at the MRC Biostatistics Unit in Cambridge, she has led MRC-funded projects to improve genetic understanding of cardiometabolic traits across multiple phenotypes and diverse populations, translating methodological innovation into applied genomic insights. Her work blends rigorous statistical theory from a PhD in Statistics with hands-on genomic analyses across leading UK research centres including the Wellcome Sanger Institute and Mount Sinai, and she has a track record of securing competitive fellowships. Notably, she has repeatedly bridged epidemiology and genetics to identify shared aetiology between related disorders, an approach that reveals cross-trait biology beyond single-disease studies.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS, Bachelor of Science - BS, MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS at The University of WinnipegDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics at Western University
Github Skills (6)
fine-mapping10
gwas9
bayesian7
traits1
quantitative1
visualization1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jennasimit/MFM
Jul 2017 - Aug 2019
Bayesian multinomial stochastic search with sharing scale
Contributions:30 commits, 9 PRs, 87 pushes in 2 years 1 month
bayesian
jennasimit/MFMextra
Oct 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:53 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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