Joseph Powell
Associate Professor Joseph Powell is a leading biomedical researcher and statistical geneticist. He has published leading research on new mathematical theories in population genetics, and led one of the world's largest research programs into the relationship between genetic variation, the expression of genes, and their impact on disease. In 2015 he founded his own group at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience where he pioneered the use of single cell sequencing, bringing in the first high-throughput systems to Australia and leading the Australian contribution to the Human Cell Atlas. In 2018 Powell was recruited to head the newly launched Garvan-Weizmann Centre for Cellular Genomics, where he has established research programs in both fundamental and translational research across oncology, immunology, stem cells, and lung disease.