Andrea Horimoto

Andrea Horimoto, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Her research focuses on population genetics, genetic epidemiology, and statistical genetics, particularly in admixed populations like Hispanic, Latino, and African American communities. She investigates genetic variants underlying complex diseases such as cardiovascular, Alzheimer’s, and chronic kidney diseases using large-scale genomic data from cohorts like the All of Us study and the Million Veteran Program.

Dr. Horimoto holds a BS (1994), Specialization in Animal Science (1997), MS (2005), and PhD (2009) in Science/Population Genetics from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of São Paulo Medical School and served as a Visiting Scientist at the University of Washington’s Statistical Genetics Lab and Department of Biostatistics before joining Harvard Medical School as a Research Associate and Brigham and Women’s Hospital as a Senior Research Scientist (2022–present).

Her work emphasizes understanding genetic ancestry’s role in disease risk, leveraging biobank datasets and Latin American cohorts. She develops statistical methods and bioinformatics tools to analyze high-dimensional genomic data, contributing to studies of admixed Brazilian populations and global health initiatives.