Georg K. Gerber PhD, MD, MPH

Dr. Georg K. Gerber is a computer scientist, microbiologist, and physician board-certified in Clinical Pathology. He is an Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology faculty, an Associate Pathologist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) Center for Advanced Molecular Diagnostics, and Co-Director of the Massachusetts Host-Microbiome Center at BWH. His research interests involve building novel computational models and high-throughput experimental systems to understand the role of the microbiota in human diseases, and applying these findings to develop new diagnostic tests and therapeutic interventions to improve patient care.

Dr. Gerber’s training includes a Fellowship in Infectious Disease Pathology and Molecular Microbiology at BWH, a Residency in Clinical Pathology at BWH, an MD from Harvard Medical School, a Master’s and a PhD in Computer Science (Statistical Machine Learning, supervised by David Gifford and Tommi Jaakkola) from MIT, and a Master’s in Infectious Diseases and a BA in Pure Mathematics from UC Berkeley. Before returning to graduate school, he founded several companies focused on developing and applying 3D graphics technologies to create feature and IMAX films