Eleanor Feingold is an American statistical geneticist. She is a professor of human genetics and of

biostatistics Biostatistics (also known as biometry) are the development and application of statistical methods to a wide range of topics in biology. It encompasses the design of biological experiments, the collection and analysis of data from those experime ...

, and executive associate dean, in the

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. Feingold's research results include the discovery that the human genome includes at least 49 different genes that contribute to the shape of the

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Education and career

Feingold graduated from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

in 1985, with an interdisciplinary bachelor's degree that combined mathematics, public policy, and English. She completed a Ph.D. in statistics at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

in 1993. Her dissertation, ''Modeling a New Genetic Mapping Method'', was supervised by

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. After her bachelor's degree, and continuing part-time into her graduate studies, she worked as a mathematician and statistician for the

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. After completing her doctorate she became an assistant professor of biostatistics at

Emory University Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1836 as "Emory College" by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory, Emory is the second-oldest private institution of ...

. She moved to the

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in 1997, became a full professor and associate dean there in 2010, and was named executive associate dean in 2015.

Recognition

In 2010 Feingold was named a

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