Dara Kusic, PhD

Assistant Professor
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.