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Rachel Melamed

Assistant Professor of Biology

University of Massachusetts at Lowell

I an assistant professor at UMass Lowell in the Biology department, also affiliated with the Center of Biomedical and Health Research in Data Sciences. I’m excited to work with Biology students at all levels to make discoveries about the origins of disease.

My goal is to discover health conditions, medical treatments, or other exposures that change risk of disease, by linking health data to molecular data. These results can uncover how the disease works and identify interventions to prevent and treat it.

To tackle this goal, our research brings together many kinds of data, including health records, biobanks, cancer genomics projects, and massive experimental studies of drugs. We will use methods inspired by computer science and epidemiology.

Interests

  • Disease biology & disease genomics
  • Data science
  • Epidemiology & causal inference

Experience

  • Postdoc in Biomedical Data Science

    University of Chicago

  • PhD in Biomedical Informatics

    Columbia University

  • BA in Computer Science

    Brown University