Dr. Lana Garmire is a tenure track faculty in translational bioinformatics. She obtained the MA degree in Statistics (2005) and PhD degree in Comparartive Biochemistry (Computational Biology focus, 2007), both from UC-Berkeley. She then did her postdoctoral training (2008-2011) under the joint mentorship of Prof. Shankar Subramaniam in the Bioengineering Dept. and Prof. Christopher Glass in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, UC-San Diego, where she collaborated widely with faculty at UC-San Diego, including Prof. Shu Chien, Prof. Mark Marcula, Prof. Gene Yeo and Prof. Melvin Simon. She worked for one year as a senior computational scientist in Asuragen Inc (a spin-off of Ambion, the RNA company), and got the first bioinformatics NIH SBIR grant of the company. She resumed the tenure-track faculty postion in the University of Hawaii Cancer Center since December 2012. Dr. Garmire has received 2.3M funding provided by: Pilot Project Program of NIH/NIGMS COBRE III 5 P30 GM103341-02, Collaboration Enhancement Award from NIMHD 5 U54 MD008149-07, Hawaii Community Foundation, NIH/NIGMS P20 COBRE and NIEHS K01 award.
University of Hawaii Cancer Center
Dr. Garmire's group at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center is a thriving, productive and well-connected team. The University of Hawaii Cancer Center is one of the 68 NCI designated cancer centers, and its Cancer Epidemiology Program is the flagship of UH Cancer Center ranked highly nationally. Garmire group has received over 2.3 million NIH funding as a 2-year old group, and published/submitted over 10 quality journal papers in year 2014!
Postdoc and PhD student candidates: Garmire Group is recruiting competent and motivated postdoc and PhD students who are passionate to cure cancers with the computational biology approach. Previous rigorous training in quantative sciences is required.
Contact
Lana Garmire, Ph.D.
Cancer Epidemiology Program
University of Hawaii Cancer Center Email: [email protected]
Graduate Faculty
Program of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
Graduate Faculty
Program of Public Health Studies
University of Hawaii
Faculty Member
Institute of Biogenesis Research
University of Hawaii
Garmire Group is recruiting competent and motivated postdoc and PhD students who are passionate to cure cancers with the computational biology approach. Previous rigorous training in quantative sciences is required.
