Cancer Bioinformatics - Fertig Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Lab Information

Research Areas

Systems biology and bioinformatics
Pattern detection and semi-supervised algorithms
Precision medicine in cancer
Head and neck cancer
"What Netflix can teach us about treating cancer"

Recent News

Congratulations to B. Afsari and T. Guo for publication of Splice Expression Variation Analysis (SEVA) for Inter-tumor Heterogeneity of Gene Isoform Usage in Cancer in Bioinformatics.
See our recent review to learn more about applications of matrix factorization to genomics Stein-O'Brien et al. Enter the matrix: Interpreting unsupervised feature learning with matrix decomposition to discover hidden knowledge in high-throughput omics data.

Funding

NIH/NCI R01 and U01
CZI Collaborative Computational Tools for the Human Cell Atlas
NIDCR Head and Neck SPORE Pilot Award
Johns Hopkins University Discovery Award
Johns Hopkins University Catalyst Award
Johns Hopkins IDIES Pilot