Ernest Turro Ph.D. is the Arthur J. and Nellie Z. Cohen Professor of Pediatrics(Genetics) and an Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is a member of faculty in the Mindich Child Health and Development Institute and the Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine.

Over the past 20 years, his research has focused on the development and application of statistical methods for advancing biomedical science. He has made major contributions towards discovering and understanding the genetic causes of a wide range of rare diseases. For example, he led the team that discovered RNU4-2 (now ReNU) and RNU2-2 syndromes, two ofthe most prevalent neurodevelopmental disorders.

He established the NICUnet network of neonatal intensive care units in the United States to study the genetic basis of neonatal fatalities. Previously, he led the bioinformatic component of a molecular diagnostic platform for patients with bleeding and platelet disorders. He has also led large genetic studies of platelet-related phenotypes and cardiovascular outcomes. Earlier in his career, he developed several influential statistical methods for modeling the expression and splicing of genes.

He is a named author on approximately 70 peer-reviewed articles, including work as a senior author in Science, Nature, Nature Medicine, Nature Genetics, Blood and the American Journal of Human Genetics.

Before moving to New York, Dr. Turro worked at the University of Cambridge and at Imperial College London. He holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc., both from Imperial College London, and a B.Sc. from the University of Bristol.