Joyce Tung, Ph.D

Dr. Joyce Tung manages a team that is responsible for 23andMe's participant-centric human genetics research program of over 11 million consented research participants. The 23andMe research program covers recruitment, consent, and data collection, new research methods and tools development, genetic analysis across a broad range of conditions, and academic and industry research collaborations. Since joining 23andMe in 2007, Joyce has been part of many of the company's key milestones — launch of the consumer product, the first scientific publications and collaborations, FDA authorization of genetic reports, and transition to a non-profit research institute. Before 23andMe, Joyce was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, where she studied mouse and human genetics. She graduated from Stanford with honors and distinction with a B.S. in Biological Sciences and a minor in Computer Science, and earned her Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of California, San Francisco where she was a National Science Foundation graduate research fellow.