Associate Professor Loic Yengo
Dr Loic Yengo is an Associate Professor at The University of Queensland (UQ) and Group Leader of the Statistical Genomics Lab within UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience. Loic was born in Brazzaville (Congo) and did his primary education in Congo, Cote d'Ivoire and France. After completing a PhD in applied mathematics at the University of Lille (France) in 2014, he joined UQ in 2016 for a postdoctoral training in Quantitative and Statistical Genetics.
Loic started his own lab in 2020 to investigate the causes and consequences of genetic variation within and between human populations. His group develops and applies novel statistical methods to analyse large volumes of genomic data. Loic’s research has contributed to improve understanding of the genetic and phenotypic consequences of non-random mating (inbreeding and assortative mating) in human populations, and has led to identify novel genetic variants associated with complex traits and diseases. Loic was the 2022 recipient of the Ruth Stephens Gani Medal of the Australian Academy of Science recognizing outstanding contributions to research in human genetics, and was named in Nature Medicine’s 2022 Yearbook among 11 early-career researchers “to watch”. In 2024, Loic was awarded a Snow Medical Research Foundation Fellowship to accelerate the deployment of genomic risk prediction in the clinic and improve the benefit of genomic medicine in under-represented populations.