Dr. Ranajit Chakraborty currently working as Director of the Center for Computational Genomics (CCG) at the Institute of Applied Genetics, and a Professor of Molecular and Medical Genetics at the University of Molecular and Medical Genetics at Fort Worth, Texas. His received his PhD degree in Biostatistics and Population Genetics in 1971 from the Indian Statistical Institute at Kolkata, India. Since 1971 he served as faculty member at numerous universities in India and USA and had been a visiting professor in Germany, Chile, Japan, and Sweden. Author of over 560 research articles and 8 edited volumes.
Dr. Ranajit Chakraborty research is focused on Statistical and Population Genetics, Genomics of Complex Diseases, Gene-Environment Interaction, Admixture Mapping, Molecular Epidemiology, DNA and Microbial Forensics, Health Disparities, Human Genome Diversity.
