Anthony Philippakis

Philippakis is committed to bridging the gap between data sciences and medicine. He trained as a cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, with a focus on caring for patients with rare genetic cardiovascular diseases. At the Broad Institute he directs the Data Sciences Platform, an organization of nearly 200 software engineers and computational biologists that develops software for analyzing genomic and clinical data. In addition to his roles at the Broad Institute, Philippakis is a Venture Partner at GV, focusing on machine learning, distributed computing, and genomics.

Philippakis received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and completed a Ph.D. in biophysics at Harvard. As an undergraduate, he studied mathematics at Yale University, and later completed the Part III (equivalent to M.Phil) in mathematics at Cambridge University.