The Center for Admixture Science and Technology (CAST) is one of the latest additions to the renowned Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science (CEGS) funded by National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The goal of CAST is to improve the utility of genome science for all populations living in the United States by studying complex relationships between genetics, individual behavior, socioeconomic status, and environmental factors influencing health.

Read more about our research areas and resources produced by CAST!

Principal Investigators
Lucila Ohno-Machado

Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD

Medical Informatics

 Kelly Frazer

Kelly Frazer, PhD

Genetics

 <Melissa Gymrek

Melissa Gymrek, PhD

Bioinformatics

Consortium PIs
Hoon Cho

Hoon Cho, PhD

Yale University

Distributed Analytics

 Phillip Tsao

Phillip Tsao, PhD

VA Palo Alto

CVD Predictive Models

 Hua Xu

Hua Xu, PhD

Yale University

NLP, All of Us

 Haixu Tang, PhD

Haixu Tang, PhD

University of Indiana

Privacy Technology