Hunter Fraser is a Professor of Biology^[1] at Stanford University and the chief PI of the Fraser lab^[2] at Stanford. He is also a member of Bio-X, Stanford's interdisciplinary biosciences institute, the Maternal & Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI), the Stanford Cancer Institute, and the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. His research is in quantitative genomics, epigenetics and evolutionary biology and has focused on developing new experimental and computational methods to study the evolution of gene expression in defining complex traits.^[3]

Hunter completed his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005.^[4] His dissertation advisor was Mike Eisen.

Arrest and domestic violence charges

Hunter was arrested in July 2022 for domestic violence against his partner ^{[5] [6] [7]}. In September 2022, County District Attorney’s office spokesperson Sean Webby wrote that the decision to charge Fraser with was made after the office “reviewed the evidence and determined we could prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt.” Webby added that the office does not anticipate the charges will be dropped. The police report states that Fraser threw her on the ground while she, Fraser and his daughter were playing a game. According to the police report, the woman said that Fraser slammed the bedroom door against her while she was holding the door.

According to the police report, an officer observed a “large swath of redness with the imprint of a door handle on [the woman’s] skin,”. ^[5] The report also states that Fraser told an officer that he did not know how hard he had pushed the door, and that he did not know who was behind the door until he opened it. Fraser was then arrested for domestic violence based on the statements, the stated romantic relationship and the observed injuries, according to the report. ^[5]

Results from a subsequent CT angiogram of the victim's chest showed that the woman had two broken ribs. ^[5]