Ami Bhatt is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Genetics at Stanford University. She received her MD and PhD from the University of California, San Francisco, followed by residency, chief residency and fellowship at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute. Prof. Bhatt has received multiple awards including the Chen Award of Excellence from the Human Genome
Biography
Ami Bhatt is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Genetics at Stanford University. She received her MD and PhD from the University of California, San Francisco, followed by residency, chief residency and fellowship at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute.
Prof. Bhatt has received multiple awards including the Chen Award of Excellence from the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO), the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Paul Allen Foundation, and the Sloan Foundation Fellowship; she is also an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation. Her laboratory develops and applies novel molecular and computational tools to study strain level dynamics of the microbiome, to understand how microbial genomes change over time and predict the functional output of microbiomes. She is keenly interested to understand how microbes “talk” to one another and to host cells, and to leverage this understanding to improve health and treat diseases. She has also worked collaboratively to mine microbial enzymes from mobile genetic elements and develop these as genome editing/engineering tools.
Dr. Bhatt is also strongly committed to leading efforts to give back and ensure equity and access in research and medicine. She carries out research with the H3Africa Genomics Consortium, volunteer work with the nonprofit she co-founded, Global Oncology, and helped co-found the Cold Spring Harbor Microbiome Symposium.