Episode 39 – Ali Torkamani: Preventing heart disease with personalized genetic testing

Professor Ali Torkamani is the Director of Genome Informatics at the Scripps Research Translational Institute, where his team mines population-level genetic data to make predictions about future disease risk. Listen in as we discuss smartphone apps that could help predict the risk of a heart attack, the addition of genetic data to biosensors of the future and the use of video games as an introduction to data science. Show notes: Episode transcript: coming soon…. MyGeneRank app https://mygenerank.scripps.edu/ Ali’s faculty profile https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/torkamani/ Twitter @ATorkamani Scripps Research Magazine https://magazine.scripps.edu/