Team
Tian Ge (Principal Investigator)
Current Appointment
2019 - now Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
2022 - now Principal Faculty, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
2021 - now Director of Data Science, Center for Precision Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
Past Appointment
2017 - 2019 Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
2017 - 2019 Instructor in Investigation, Massachusetts General Hospital
Training & Education
2014 - 2017 Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School (with Mert Sabuncu & Jordan Smoller)
2009 - 2014 Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Fudan University (with Jianfeng Feng)
2010 - 2013 Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Warwick (with Jianfeng Feng & Thomas Nichols)
2005 - 2009 B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Fudan University
Honors & Awards
2017 NIH Pathway to Independence Award
2015 MGH Tosteson Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
Grants
2023-2028 NIMH R01: Leveraging computational strategies to disentangle the genetic and neural underpinnings of ADHD
and its associated cognitive systems (PI)
2023-2024 The Tommy Fuss Fund: Dissecting the heterogeneity of depression through neuroimaging integration,
precision neurotype clustering, and genomic contribution analysis (Co-I)
2023-2024 Industrial collaboration with Biogen: Utility of electronic health records and genomic data for depression patient stratification and outcome prediction (Co-I)
2022-2028 NHGRI R56/R01: Improving methods and practices for trans-ethnic genetic studies (PI)
2022-2027 NHGRI R01: Leveraging human genetics to overcome complex diagnostic challenges, evaluation of pan-ancestry
polygenic scores to reduce misdiagnosis of narcolepsy and circadian rhythm sleep wake disorders (Subaward PI)
2022-2027 NIDDK R01: Identification and characterization of inflammatory bowel disease causal variants (Co-I)
2021-2026 NHGRI U01: Development of polygenic risk scores for diabetes and complications across the life-span
in populations of diverse ancestry (Subaward PI)
2021-2023 The Tommy Fuss Fund: Mapping genomics to brain structure, psychiatric disorders and therapeutic targets (Co-I)
2020-2025 NHGRI U01: eMERGE phase IV clinical center at Mass General Brigham (Co-I)
2020-2021 The Tommy Fuss Fund: Linking genomics, brain structure and the development of psychiatric disorders (Co-I)
2019-2024 NIMH R01: Functional genomics of the human connectome in psychiatric illness (Subaward PI)
2017-2022 NIA K99/R00: Exploring the genetic basis of AD progression (PI)
Da Zhi (Postdoctoral fellow)
Menno Witteveen (Senior data analyst)
Juan de la Hoz (Postdoctoral fellow; co-mentored w/ Jordan Smoller)
Justin Tubbs (Postdoctoral fellow; co-mentored w/ Jordan Smoller)
Kai Yuan (Postdoctoral fellow; co-mentored w/ Hailiang Huang)
Rui Zhang (Postdoctoral fellow; co-mentored w/ Hailiang Huang)
Yu Chen (Postdoctoral fellow; co-mentored w/ Hailiang Huang)
Soyeon Kim (Postdoctoral fellow; co-mentored w/ Hailiang Huang)
Cyrus Ayubcha (MD/PhD student)
Yingzhe Zhang (PhD student)
Trainee awards & Accomplishments
NHGRI research training meeting platform presentation (Justin Tubbs), 2024
NIMH K08 award (Travis Mallard), 2023
ASHG oral presentation (Qidi Feng), 2022
ASHG oral presentation (Kai Yuan, Yunfeng Ruan), 2021
WCPG oral presentation (Zhaowen Liu), 2021
Alumni
Travis Mallard (Postdoctoral fellow; co-mentored w/ Jordan Smoller)
Qidi Feng (Postdoctoral fellow; co-mentored w/ Hailiang Huang)
Zhaowen Liu (Postdoctoral fellow; co-mentored w/ Jordan Smoller)
Yunfeng Ruan (Postdoctoral fellow; co-mentored w/ Hailiang Huang)