Mark Daly is director of the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland at the University of Helsinki. He is also co-director of the Medical and Population Genetics Program at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Mark Daly
Associate professor
Massachusetts General Hospital
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