Biography
Michael Boehnke is the Richard G. Cornell Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics. He is Director of the University of Michigan Center for Statistical Genetics and Genome Science Training Program, a member of the National Academy of Medicine, and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He did his undergraduate degree in Mathematics at the University of Oregon and his PhD in Biomathematics at UCLA. He has been on the faculty at Michigan since 1984. Dr. Boehnke has >400 refereed publications. He has (co-)chaired 23 doctoral committees and supervised 12 post-doctoral fellows.
- BA, Mathematics, University of Oregon
Research
Dr. Boehnke's research focuses on problems of study design and statistical analysis of human genetic data with a particular emphasis on human gene mapping and a current focus on association studies based on sequence and genotype-array data. He is coordinating principal investigator of the Finland-United States Investigation of NIDDM (FUSION) study of the genetics of type 2 diabetes. He is a founder and steering committee member of the DIAGRAM (type 2 diabetes), DIAMANTE (type 2 diabetes), MAGIC (glucose and insulin traits), GIANT (anthropometric traits), and Global Lipids genome-wide association meta-analysis consortia which together have identified thousands of genetic variants associated with these diseases and traits. He has had continuous NIH funding since 1988.
