Evan Macosko, MD, PhD

Principal Investigator, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Assistant Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital

Evan Macosko is an institute member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and an assistant professor and attending psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital. His lab invents and applies genomics technology combined with high-throughput single cell analysis to uncover pathogenic mechanisms of neuropsychiatric diseases. Macosko received his MD from Weill Cornell Medical College. He earned a PhD from The Rockefeller University in the laboratory of Cori Bargmann, where he characterized neural circuitry responsible for C. elegans social behavior. He completed residency training in psychiatry at McLean and Massachusetts General Hospitals. As a postdoctoral fellow with Steven McCarroll, he developed Drop-seq, a technology for measuring gene expression in thousands of individual cells at once.