Gonçalo Rocha Abecasis (born 1976) is a Portuguese American biomedical researcher at the University of Michigan, serves as Vice President & Chief Genomics and Data Science Officer at the Regeneron Genetics Center,[4] and was chair of the Department of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health.

[6] Abecasis is the oldest of 12 children in his family, born in Moura to José Manuel and Maria Teresa.

After learning computer programming in a high school club, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Genetics from the University of Leeds in 1997, working with Mary Anne Shaw, and a D. Phil in human genetics[2] from the University of Oxford in 2001, working with William Cookson and Lon Cardon.

[7] He first applied his programming knowledge during his Ph.D. studies to develop tools to analyze the data on asthma susceptibility that his project was generating.

[11] His work was cited in 2010 by US Vice-President Joe Biden in a speech on the importance of biomedical research regarding the Recovery Act Innovation Report.