Lana Garmire, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
Associate Professor, Biostatistics
University of Michigan
About Lana
Dr. Garmire is an awardee of US Presidential Early Career Scientists and Engineers in 2019, and a fellow of Americian Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). She is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in translational bioinformatics.
Dr. Garmire obtained the MA degree in Statistics (2005) and Ph.D. degree in Comparative Biochemistry (Computational Biology focus, 2007), both from UC-Berkeley. She started the first tenure-track faculty position in University of Hawaii Cancer Center later 2012 and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2017. She moved to University of Michigan in 2018 to expand the research to multi-modal research (genomics, EMR and pathological imaging analysis). She has published over 100 papers in top quality journals including Cell, Nature Communications, Genome Biology, Genome Medicine, Clinical Cancer Research. She contributed as the senior corresponding author in the majority of them. She delivered over 90 invited talks to institutes including National Library of Medicine (NLM) and National Academy of Sciences (NAS). She has mentored over 90 Assistant Professors, MD fellows, postdocs, graduate students and undergraduates of various academic backgrounds, in Biology, Mathematics, Physics, (bio)Statistics, Bioengineering, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Most PhD and postdoc trainees became faculty or senior scientists in private sectors. She has served on various NIH study sections and currently a standing member of BDMA study section. She is on the editorial advisory board for journals Genome Biology and Journal of Proteome Research.
