Marina Sirota, PhD

Associate Professor, Institute for Computational Health Sciences

Dr. Sirota is interested in developing computational methods in integrative biology and applying these approaches in the context of disease diagnostic and therapeutics. She has extensive background in bioinformatics and data integration in the context of drug repositioning, drug target identification, clinical and molecular data analysis. Dr. Sirota has a long standing interest in studying genetic architecture in complex disease as well as novel applications of next-generation sequencing techniques with a special focus on women’s health in the areas of pregnancy outcomes, autoimmune disease and neurodegeneration.