Matthew Brauer MS.Stat, PhD

Matthew Brauer was completed his BA in Biochemistry at UC Berkeley, and received an MS in Statistics and Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied microbial evolution and computational systematics. He continued in his computational turn with a postdoc in David Botstein’s lab at Stanford University Medical School’s Department of Genetics, followed by a research fellowship at the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Biology at Princeton. In 2006 he joined Genentech as a scientist to support research programs in Translational Oncology and Tumor Biology & Angiogenesis. With the advent of High Throughput Sequencing, he formed and led a new Scientific Computing Group to implement processes and methods for effectively using genome-scale data of increasing volume and complexity. He have continued in this vein as a primary contributor to the success of the Human Genetics Initiative, and have helped to define both gRED’s Informatics Strategy and gRED’s relation to Roche-wide data science initiatives.