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Ferhat Ay
Assistant Adjunct Professor, PediatricsBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus: Epigenetics, genomics, chromatin structure, 3D/4D genome/nucleome, statistical methods for analysis of Hi-C and HiChIP data, gene regulation in immune cells, cancer genomics
Christopher Benner
Assistant Professor in Residence, School of MedicineBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Hannah Carter
Assistant Professor, Division of Medical GeneticsBISB Research Area(s):
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Structural Bioinformatics and Systems Pharmacology
- Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus: Genomics and systems biology for precision cancer medicine, variant interpretation, network analysis, immunogenomics
Lukas Chavez
Assistant Professor, School of MedicineBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus: Chromatin and Gene Regulation in Childhood Cancers
Kit Curtius
Assistant Professor, Biomedical InformaticsBISB Research Area(s):
- Quantitative Foundations of Computational Biology
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus: Mathematical models of cancer evolution, optimization of cancer screening and personalized surveillance, epigenetic aging, translational risk prediction tools
Robert El-Kareh
Associate Professor, Biomedical InformaticsBMI Research Area(s):
- Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine
- Decision Support Systems
Research Focus: Clinical informatics, clinical decision support, diagnostic safety, quality improvement, patient safety
Kelly Frazer
Professor, PediatricsDirector, Institute for Genomic Medicine
BISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus: Using iPSCs for genetic analyses, GWAS, QTL analyses, bioinformatic approaches to understanding human disease, single-cell analyses
Rodney Gabriel
Assistant Clinical Professor, School of MedicineBMI Research Area(s):
- Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine
Research Focus: Perioperative outcomes, pharmacogenomics, machine learning, predictive modeling, regional anesthesia, acute pain.
Joseph Gleeson
Professor, Neurosciences (School of Medicine)Director of Neurogenetics, Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine
BISB Research Area(s):
- Comparative and Population Genomics
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus: Autism, Whole genome sequencing, Epigenome, Single cell sequencing, Gene-environment interactions, Somatic mosaicism, Systems biology, Protein interactions
Olivier Harismendy
Assistant Professor, Biomedical InformaticsBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus: My laboratory develops genome-wide assays and analysis for personalized cancer care. Particular focus includes genetics of cancer susceptibility and drug response, secure computing and data sharing.
Michael Hogarth
Assoc Physician Dipl, School of MedicineBMI Research Area(s):
- Data Models and Knowledge Representation
- Biomedical Natural Language Processing
Research Focus: Development of next generation public health information systems, terminology/ontology infrastructure in biomedical informatics, and developing systems that support clinical research at the point of care.
Albert Hsiao
Associate Professor in Residence, RadiologyBISB Research Area(s):
- Comparative and Population Genomics
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Cardiovascular, COVID-19, x-ray, CT, MRI, Point-of-care Ultrasound
Wendy Huang
Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular MedicineBISB Research Area(s):
- Comparative and Population Genomics
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus: To assess the contributions of RNA-binding proteins and their associated non-coding RNAs to host immune homeostasis and autoimmune pathologies.
Lilia Iakoucheva
Associate Professor, PsychiatryBISB Research Area(s):
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus: Autism, genetics, gene expression, protein interactions, systems biology, networks, psychiatric diseases, whole genome sequencing
Mohit Jain
Associate Professor, PharmacologyBISB Research Area(s):
- Proteomics and Metabolomics
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Structural Bioinformatics and Systems Pharmacology
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus:
Human Biology, Metabolic Biochemistry, Integrative Biology, Mass Spectrometry, Metabolomics
Jejo Koola
Assistant Clinical Professor, School of MedicineBMI Research Area(s):
- Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine
- Biomedical Natural Language Processing
Research Focus: Practicing internist in the field of hospital medicine and clinical informatics. Research focus is on using informatics tools (including predictive analytics, natural language processing, and information visualization) to improve the care of multi-morbid hospital patients.
Tsung-Ting Kuo
Assistant Professor, Biomedical InformaticsBMI Research Area(s):
- Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine
- Privacy Technology, Data Sharing, and Big Data Analytics
Research Focus:
Blockchain Technologies, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing
Amit Majithia
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology, School of MedicineBISB Research Area(s):
- Comparative and Population Genomics
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus: Insulin resistance, functional genomics, pharmacogenetics, cardiometabolic disease, diabetes
Jill Mesirov
Professor, School of MedicineAssociate Vice Chancellor, Computational Health Sciences,
Professor of Medicine, Division of Medical Genetics
BISB Research Area(s):
- Quantitative Foundations of Computational Biology
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus: Algorithms and analytic methodologies for pattern recognition and discovery with applications to cancer genomics, to better diagnose, stratify, and treat patients. Development of biologist-friendly biomedical software tools.
Niema Moshiri
Assistant Teaching Professor, Computer Science and EngineeringBISB Research Area(s):
- Quantitative Foundations of Computational Biology
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus: Computational HIV epidemiology, phylogenetics, models of sequence and tree evolution, Massive Adaptive Interactive Text (MAIT) development
Shamim Nemati
Assistant Professor, Biomedical InformaticsBISB Research Area(s):
- Dynamical Systems, Stochastic Processes, and Biological Circuits
- Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine
- Decision Support Systems
Research Focus: Signal Processing, Dynamical Systems, Multivariate Time Series, Point Process, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Video Processing, and Natural Language Processing
Lucila Ohno-Machado
Professor, Biomedical InformaticsBISB Research Area(s):
- Epigenomics and Gene Expression Control
- Predictive Modeling and Personalized Medicine
- Privacy Technology, Data Sharing, and Big Data Analytics
Research Focus: Biomedical Informatics, predictive modeling, biomedical data analytics
Nicholas Schork
Professor, Scripps Research InstituteBISB Research Area(s):
- Quantitative Foundations of Computational Biology
- Comparative and Population Genomics
- TBD
Research Focus: Developing mathematical, statistical, and computational models and tools to study the genetic basis of complex traits and diseases
Joel Wertheim
Assistant Professor, School of MedicineBISB Research Area(s):
- Genetic and Molecular Networks
- Bioinformatics Applications in Human Disease
Research Focus: Molecular epidemiology of HIV and other RNA viruses; Virus phylogenetics and evolution