Bioinformatics Research Scientist, Application Developer
My recent work in informatics has had a focus on the Camden Opioid Research Initiative (CORI), a state of New Jersey-funded project that investigates factors that contribute to opioid use disorder and overdose, and how genetic and non-genetic information can be used in the prevention or treatment of this disease. I contribute to this project as an application developer, data analyst, and bioinformatics researcher.
Prior to and concurrently with CORI, I mine data collected through the Coriell Personalized Medicine Collaborative (CPMC), a research study that explored the usefulness of genetic information in clinical decision-making and health management, to search for associations between genetic data and health outcomes and phenotypes.
My background in modeling genotype-phenotype associations enables me to contribute to the proposal studying neonatal outcomes in response to medication treatments for opioid neonatal abstinence syndrome by analyzing the low-pass sequencing data that will be collected to assess any links between health outcome and genetic information that may influence how an infant responds to medication treatment.
EducationPostdoctoral Research Fellow - University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA PhD - Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA MS - University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA BS - University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA BA - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia |
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