When GWAS Meets Biochemistry: Lessons from Metabolite Genetics
When: Thursday, April 30, 2026, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Where: Milton Lecture Theatre, Garrod Building, Whitechapel
Speaker: Eric Fauman, Ph.D.
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PHURI Seminar Series
When GWAS Meets Biochemistry: Lessons from Metabolite Genetics
Eric Fauman, Ph.D. is Executive Director of AI Strategy and Computational Biology at Pfizer. Trained in structural biology and X‑ray crystallography, he has spent nearly three decades applying computational approaches to advance the drug discovery pipeline.
His scientific work centers on the interpretation of GWAS with a particular interest in metabolite QTLs. Drawing on the deep biochemical literature, his work derives inferences on what large‑scale human genetics can reliably tell us about causal genes, pathway structure, and directionality of effect. More recently, he has explored how emerging agentic AI systems may be able to assist us in assessing biological rationales grounded on an extensive repository of manually annotated metabolite QTLs.
