Alkes Price

{{short description|American geneticist}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = Alkes Price | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image =  | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Alkes Long Price | birth_date =  | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | home_town = | other_names = | pronounce = | fields = Statistical genetics | workplaces = Harvard School of Public Health | patrons = | education = University of Pennsylvania | alma_mater = | thesis_title = Packing densities of layered patterns | thesis_url = https://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9727276/ | thesis_year = 1997 | doctoral_advisor = Herbert Saul Wilf | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = Hilary Finucane | notable_students = | known_for = | awards = Harvard School of Public Health Outstanding Faculty Mentor of the Year Award (2017) | spouse =  | partner =  | children = | signature =  | signature_alt = | website =  | footnotes = }} '''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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://dms.hms.harvard.edu/big/fac/Price.php |title=Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics PhD Program |website=dms.hms.harvard.edu |access-date=2019-08-22}}</ref> In 2017, he received the Outstanding Faculty Mentor of the Year Award from the Harvard School of Public Health.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/postdocs-research-associates-celebrated/ |title=Contributions of postdocs, research associates celebrated |last1=Boston |first1=677 Huntington Avenue |date=2017-09-25 |work=Harvard School of Public Health |access-date=2019-08-22 |last2=Ma 02115 +1495‑1000 |language=en-us}}</ref>

==Education== Price received a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1992,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thedp.com/article/1992/06/teenage-wunderkindkind-advances-to-u|title = Teenage wunderkindkind advances to U}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-05-05-mn-8454-story.html|title=11 and 9, They're Set to Take University by Degrees|website=Los Angeles Times|date=5 May 1985}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/b2289b97d5c961672da3a6314ed7d546|title = Whiz Kids, Brothers 11 and 9, Set Sights on University of Chicago|website = Associated Press}}</ref> and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997.<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Price |first=Alkes Long |title=Packing densities of layered patterns |date=1997-01-01 |degree=Ph.D. |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |url=https://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9727276}}</ref>

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==External links== *[https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/alkes-price/ Faculty page] *{{MathGenealogy|id=23151}}

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