Dr. Harsh Sheth

Dr. Sheth received his Ph.D. in Applied Genetics from Newcastle University, UK in 2015 and served as a senior research associate at the Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University till 2018. He established the Advanced Genomic Technologies Division and Bioinformatics Core Facility at FRIGE’s Institute of Human Genetics in 2019 and began development of novel low-cost and high-throughput genetic diagnostic technologies in oncology, neurodevelopmental biology, andrology, rare disease diagnosis and computational biology. He is a member of ASHG, ESHG, Genetics Society, CGA-IGC, InSiGHT, PLSD, ISPAT, ISHG and ISIEM. To date, he has published over 30 peer-reviewed publications in international journals (including Lancet and Nature Genetics) and has 2 international patents to his name. He has received funding from several national and international funding agencies such as UK-MRC, DBT, ICMR and GSBTM and is also appointed as a member of ICMR’s task force on precision oncology. To date, she has trained more than 100 BSc, MSc, MRes, PhD, MBBS and MD students.