Arun Durvasula, PhD

Assistant Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences and Quantitative and Computational Biology

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Awards

National Institute of Health: Outstanding Investigator Award, 2025
– 2030
ASHG Charles J. Epstein Trainee Award for Excellence in Human Genetics Research Semi-finalist, 2023
Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award, 2021
2018
-: National Science Foundation Graduate Student Fellowship, 2018
– 2021

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA — Postdoc — 08/2023 — Population and Statistical Genetics
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA — Ph.D. — 08/2021 — Human Genetics
UC Davis, Davis, CA — B.S. — 06/2015 — Biotechnology

Leveraging diverse ancestry and environmental variables to understand the evolution and architecture of complex traits
NIH · R35GM160467 · Aug 15, 2025 – Jul 31, 2030 · Role: Principal Investigator

Not Just Ne Ne-More: New Applications for SMC from Ecology to Phylogenies. Genome Biol Evol. 2026 01 02; 18(1).. View in PubMed
Determining the driving factors shaping genetic architecture of complex traits in recently admixed populations. bioRxiv. 2025 Dec 16.. View in PubMed
Genome-wide selection inference at short tandem repeats. PLoS Genet. 2025 Dec; 21(12):e1011959.. View in PubMed
Exposure accumulation drives age-dependent disease architectures and polygenic risk scores. medRxiv. 2025 Nov 07.. View in PubMed
Pathway-specific polygenic scores substantially increase the discovery of gene-adiposity interactions impacting liver biomarkers. HGG Adv. 2026 Jan 15; 7(1):100515.. View in PubMed
Identifying independent causal cell types for human diseases and risk variants. medRxiv. 2025 Jul 03.. View in PubMed
Addressing missing context in regulatory variation across primate evolution. Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2025 Aug; 93:102374.. View in PubMed
Pathway-specific polygenic scores substantially increase the discovery of gene-adiposity interactions impacting liver biomarkers. medRxiv. 2025 May 21.. View in PubMed
Addressing missing context in regulatory variation across primate evolution. ArXiv. 2025 Apr 02.. View in PubMed
Distinct explanations underlie gene-environment interactions in the UK Biobank. Am J Hum Genet. 2025 03 06; 112(3):644-658.. View in PubMed