Associate Members

The Human Pangenome Reference Consortium is an international effort. The consortium welcomes participation from academic and industry partners, as well as non-profit organizations.


Data Availability – All data contributed to or generated by the HPRC will be made publicly available for research purposes.

Data Use - All data contributed to or generated by the HPRC will be available for general research use.

Analysis and Assembly - Contributions to literature curation, disease/gene association efforts, variant level pathogenicity determinations, or other activities undertaken by collaborators are encouraged. All results will be made freely and publicly available.

Non-endorsement – Collaborating with HPRC does not imply endorsement of the product or the collaborator by the NIH.

Non-exclusivity – Collaborators will not have exclusive agreements with the HPRC project for any activity they undertake as part of their involvement in the project.

Publication – All collaborators are expected to abide by the HPRC publication policy.

Information Form – All HPRC collaborators must complete the HPRC Associate Membership Information Form and return it to the HPRC Coordinating Center. Our purpose in collecting this information is help distribute information to HPRC members and also to promote cross channel communications by providing a list of associate members on the HPRC website.


The Associate Membership Application is available here. The Associate Member policy can be accessed here.

Current Associate Members

Name Affiliation Start Date
Hardip Patel Austrailian National University September 2020
Simon Easteal Australian National University September 2020
Steven Salzberg Johns Hopkins University September 2020
Jeffrey Rosenfeld Rutgers University December 2020
George Liu USDA ARS March 2021
Obed Garcia Stanford University June 2021
Omar Eduardo Cornejo Ordaz Washington State University June 2021
Shilpa Garg University of Copenhagen August 2021
Ahmad Abou Tayoun Al Jaila Children’s Hospital & Mohammed Bin Rashid University December 2021
Guillaume Borque McGill University December 2021
Corey Watson University of Louisville December 2021
Kai Ye Xi’an Jiaotong University June 2022
Younes Mokrab Sidra Medicine August 2022
Nathan Sheffield University of Virgina September 2022
Yafei Mao Shanghai Jiao Tong Univeristy October 2022
Mile Sikic Genome Institute of Singapore November 2022
Jianjun Liu Genome Institure of Singaore November 2022
Jason Chin GeneDX January 2023
Chaochun Wei Shanghai Jiao Tong University January 2023
Mikko Rautiainen University of Helsinki January 2023
Alessandro Raveane Human Technopole May 2023
Nicole Seranzo Human Technopole May 2023
Charles Wang Loma Linda University Center For Genomics May 2023
Li Song Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth June 2023
Zechen Chong University of Alabama at Birmingham July 2023
Xiangtao Liu Xinjiang Medical University June 2023
Simon Giunta Sapienza University of Rome June 2023
Floris Barthel Translational Genomics Research Institute August 2023
Dylan Duchen Yale University Medical School December 2023
Steven Kleinstein Yale University Medical School December 2023
Jia-Xing Yue Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center March 2024
Anna-Sophie Fiston-Lavier University of Montpellier - Faculty of Sciences August 2024
Kateryna Makova Penn State University August 2024
Mohammed Jashim Uddin Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences August 2024
Christine Beck Uconn Health, Jackson Lab August 2024
Mikhail Kolmogorov National Cancer Institute August 2024
Daniel Doerr Department of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Medical Facility, Heinrich Heine University Dusseldord August 2024