Manu Sharma

Manu Sharma, PhD, is the head of the Division of Genetic Epidemiology in the Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Applied Biometry. Dr. Sharma completed his master’s in biotechnology in India. He then moved to the Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam. He finished his training in genetic epidemiology (Prof CM van duijn) and later joined Prof. Thomas Gasser’s lab, where he finished his doctoral thesis (magna cum laude). Dr. Sharma’s lab is using support vector machine and pathway-based approaches to understand the missing heritability in neurodegenerative diseases.