Sarah A. Tishkoff, Ph.D.

David and Lyn Silfen University Professor
Departments of Genetics and Biology
Perelman School of Medicine
School of Arts and Sciences
University of Pennsylvania

Director,  Penn Center for Global Genomics & Health Equity

428 Clinical Research Building
415 Curie Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6145
           
215-746-2670
tishkoff@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
www.med.upenn.edu/tishkoff/

Ph.D., Department of Genetics
Yale University, 1996

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Sarah Tishkoff is the David and Lyn Silfen University Professor in Genetics and Biology at the University of Pennsylvania, holding appointments in the School of Medicine and the School of Arts and Sciences. She is also the Director of the Penn Center for Global Genomics & Health Equity in the Department of Genetics.

Dr. Tishkoff studies genomic and phenotypic variation in ethnically diverse Africans. Her research combines field work, laboratory research, and computational methods to examine African population history, the genetic basis of anthropometric, cardiovascular, and immune related traits, and how humans have adapted to diverse environments and diets. She plays an active role as an advocate for the inclusion of ethnically diverse global populations in human genetics and genomics research.

Dr. Tishkoff is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a recipient of an NIH Pioneer Award, a David and Lucile Packard Career Award, a Burroughs/Wellcome Fund Career Award, the ASHG Curt Stern Award, the Wilbur Cross medal from Yale and a Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) endowed chair. She is President Elect of the American Society of Human Genetics, is on the NAS Board of Global Health and the Scientific Advisory Board for the Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering, and is on the editorial boards at Cell and PLOS Genetics.

Her research is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Chan Zuckerberg Institute, the American Diabetes Association, and the Pennsylvania Department of Health.