Dr. Gonçalo Abecasis serves as the Vice President and Chief Genomics and Data Science Officer at Regeneron Genetics Center (RGC) where he oversees statistical genetics and quantitative data sciences, driving novel genomic discovery. Prior to joining RGC, he was a member of the RGC Scientific Advisory Board and Director of University of Michigan’s Genomics Initiative and the Felix Moore Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics. In 2014, Dr. Abecasis received the Curt Stern Award from the American Society of Human Genetics for his contributions to the analysis and understanding of complex human traits and, in 2013, he won the Overton Prize from the International Society for Computational Biology for the tools and methods he developed for the analysis of increasingly large datasets. Dr. Abecasis received his undergraduate degree in genetics from the University of Leeds and his PhD in Human Genetics from the University of Oxford.