Mark Joseph Daly is Director of the Finnish Institute for Molecular Medicine (FIMM) at the University of Helsinki,[1] a Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, Chief of the Analytic and Translational Genetic Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
[7] Daly studied physics at MIT, although he initially wanted to become a lawyer or poker player, he joined Eric Lander as a freshman.
[8] Mark continued to work with Lander, before eventually receiving his PhD from Leiden University in 2004.
Daly trained with Eric Lander at the Whitehead Institute, and most of his initial efforts were to map haplotypes across the human genome.
As genome sequencing has become cheaper, his group works on developing statistical methods to implicate genetic mutations in neuropsychiatric diseases.