User:Lgarmire/ Lana Garmire

Lana X. Garmire is a translational bioinformatics scientist, biomedical informatician, and cancer and reproductive science researcher at the Medical School of the University of Michigan, where she is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics and Biomedical Engineering.

Biography
She was born and raised in P. R. China, and obtained a BS degree from Ocean University of China in 2001. She went to University of California at Berkeley for the PhD program from 2001 to 2007, where she earned a Master's degree in Statistics in 2005 and PhD in Comparative Biochemistry (Computational Biology focus) in 2007. She was a postdoc at University of California at San Diego from 2008 to 2011. She worked for a year at Asuragen Inc, Austin Texas where she won an SBIR grant (PI). She was an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at University of Hawaii from 2012 until 2018, before her appointment at University of Michigan since 2018.

Research
Garmire's research focuses on the development and application of deep learning and machine learning methods in genomics, imaging and most recently EMR data, towards actionable precision medicine. Her biomedical applications include cancer, pregnancy and early-life research.

She is the on the Editorial Advisory Board of journals including Genome Biology and Journal of Proteome Research. She has published more than 80 peer reviewed articles and editorials. Her translational bioinformatics research has been continuously funded by multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health for nearly 10 years.

Honors
In 2019, She was awarded the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.