Curtis Huttenhower

Dr. Curtis Huttenhower is a Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with dual appointments in the Department of Biostatistics and Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases. His research focuses on computational methods for microbial community analysis, human microbiome public health implications, and machine learning applications in genomics.

• Education: B.S. (2000) from Rose-Hulman Institute of Tech, M.S. (2003) from Carnegie Mellon, Ph.D. (2008) from Princeton
• Major grants: NIH R21CA299494 (cancer virome), U24HL175772 (HVP consortium), OT2CA297578 (early-onset colorectal cancer prevention)

His work spans functional metagenomics, microbiome diagnostics, and structured biological knowledge in machine learning. Recent studies include strain-level microbiome mapping and microbiome links to depression, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.

He contributes to open-source tools like MaAsLin and WAAFLE, and leads the Human Microbiome Project sub-cohort for inflammatory bowel disease microbiome characterization.