Mayte Suarez-Farinas, PhD
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PROFESSOR | Population Health Science and Policy
PROFESSOR | Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Research Topics
Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Gene Expressions, Genetics, Genomics, Inflammation, Systems Biology
Multi-Disciplinary Training Area
Genetics and Genomic Sciences [GGS]
Research: clinical trials, biomarkers, system biology approaches, high-dimensional predictive models, high-throughput data integration

Dr. Suarez-Farinas works in the interface of biomedical research, translational science and quantitative analysis, developing robust statistical techniques to mine and integrate complex high-throughput data, tailored to the specific disease model, especially on inflammatory skin diseases. She have extensive experience in clinical trials design and statistical and bioinformatics techniques applied to high throughput data, including microarrays, next generation sequencing data, metabolomics and proteomics.

Dr. Suarez-Farinas’ research focus on using system biology approaches that combine mechanistic clinical trials and genomic data to unravel the pathogenesis of diseases, develop disease biomarkers and define targets for therapeutics.

Using bioinformatics analysis of high-throughput data, she had developed molecular phenotypes in psoriasis and atopic dermatitis that allows to reliably measure treatment response at the molecular level. This phenotypes facilitates faster screening for effective drugs, unambiguously benchmark multiple drugs in terms of the improvements they show at molecular level.

She develops predictive tools that uses genomic data to predict long-term treatment response to psoriasis treatment after a short course of treatment.

 

MSc, University of Havana. School of Mathematics and Computer Sciences.

MSc, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Computational Statistics Group

PhD, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Computational Statistics Group

Postdoctoral Studies, The Rockefeller University. Laboratory of Mathematical Physics

2015

The Irma T. Hirschl / Monique Weill-Caulier Research Award

2005

Frederick Seitz Fellowship

Rockefeller University

2003

Woman in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship

Rockefeller University

1999

National Ph.D Fellowship

Brazilian National Research Council (CNPQ)

1997

National MsC. Fellowship

Brazilian Ministry of Education (CAPES)

1995

Abel Award (Best MSc Thesis)

University of Havana, School of Mathematics and Computer Scs.

1995

Diploma de Oro (graduated with Magna Cum Laude Honor)

University of Havana

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Consulting or Other Professional Services Examples include, but are not limited to, committee participation, data safety monitoring board (DSMB) membership

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