Marylyn D. Ritchie

Marylyn D. Ritchie is a Professor of Genetics, the Director of the Center for Translational Bioinformatics, the Associate Director for Bioinformatics in the Institute for Biomedical Informatics, and the Associate Director of the Center for Precision Medicine, at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine. [1]

Career

Marylyn D. Ritchie has published many papers in peer-reviewed journals such as the American Journal of Human Genetics, the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Human Molecular Genetics, Bioinformatics, and PLOS Genetics. Previously, she was an associate professor at Vanderbilt University in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics and the Department of Biomedical Informatics. She has also served as a consultant for Boehringer-Ingelheim, one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies.[2]

In 2018 she was appointed to the Center for Translational Genomics and the Institute for Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania.[3]

She is the editor-in-chief of the BioData Mining journal since 2016.

Research interests

Her main research interests are Bioinformatics, Computational Genomics, Pharmacogenomics and Genetic Architecture of Complex Human Traits.[4]

Awards and honors
  • 2004 - Best Paper Award at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
  • 2006 - Rising Young Investigator Award from the journal Genome Technology
  • 2010 - Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellowship
  • 2011, 2012 & 2013 - Selected as a fellow of The Kavli Foundation.

References
  1. "Marylyn D. Ritchie, PHD | Penn Center for Precision Medicine | Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania".
  2. "Marylyn Ritchie Honored as an Invited Kavli Fellow for the Third Year in a Row". 12 September 2013. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
  3. "Geneticist Marylyn D. Ritchie Appointed to Institute for Biomedical Informatics". April 3, 2018. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
  4. "Marylyn D. Ritchie". Retrieved November 15, 2018.
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