Duncan Forster, PhD

Duncan is a postdoctoral fellow working with Norbert Perrimon at Harvard Medical School. Here, he develops methods for biological data integration with a particular focus on Drosophila biology. He did his PhD with Charlie Boone and Gary Bader at the University of Toronto where he developed an integrated gene function model of budding yeast. He has a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo. In the Hadlock lab, Duncan is working to develop and apply pan-cancer risk prediction models on large patient cohorts.