Alkes Price

Alkes Long Price is an American statistical geneticist. He is Professor of Statistical Genetics in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), where he also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Biostatistics. In addition, he is an associate member of the Broad Institute's Program in Medical and Population Genetics and a member of the HSPH Program in Quantitative Genomics.^[1] In 2017, he received the Outstanding Faculty Mentor of the Year Award from the Harvard School of Public Health.^[2]

Alkes Price
Born	Alkes Long Price
Education	University of Pennsylvania
Awards	Harvard School of Public Health Outstanding Faculty Mentor of the Year Award (2017)
Scientific career
Fields	Statistical genetics
Institutions	Harvard School of Public Health
Thesis	Packing densities of layered patterns (1997)
Doctoral advisor	Herbert Saul Wilf
Doctoral students	Hilary Finucane

Education

Price received a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1992,^[3][4][5] and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997.^[6]