Location Sunnyvale, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
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Dr. Hinds joined 23andMe in 2009 following 15 years of experience in analysis of human genetic variation and the genetics of complex traits. Dr. Hinds spent 9 years at Perlegen Sciences, where he was the lead analyst for Perlegen's genome-wide polymorphism discovery projects and contributions to the International HapMap Project, as well as
developing methods for analysis of genome wide association studies. Before that, he worked for four years with Neil Risch in the Department of Genetics at Stanford University, where he developed tools for analysis of family based linkage studies. He earned his Ph.D. in Structural Biology at Stanford in 1996 as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute predoctoral fellow, where he developed methods for protein structure prediction in the laboratory of Michael Levitt.
