PRIMARY APPOINTMENT: College of Medicine–Biochemistry & Molecular Biology RESEARCH INTERESTS: Drug metabolism and bioactivation into toxicants Correlations between metabolism and adverse drugs events Development of experimental and computational metabolic approaches
Se-Ran Jun, Ph.D.
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Microbial Genomics Microbiome Science Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance Computational Systems Biology Translational Bioinformatics
Joseph Sanford, M.D.
PRIMARY/ADDITIONAL APPOINTMENTS: Director of the UAMS Institute for Digital Health & Innovation (IDHI) Associate Vice Chancellor — Chief Clinical Informatics Officer (CCIO) Associate Professor — College of Medicine’s Department of Anesthesiology RESEARCH INTERESTS: Anesthesiology Clinical Information
Feliciano “Pele” Yu, M.D.
PRIMARY/ADDITIONAL APPOINTMENTS: Professor of Pediatrics Professor of Public Health UAMS Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) Arkansas Children’s Hospital Associate Director of UAMS Mindfulness Program, Certified Koru Mindfulness Teacher RESEARCH INTERESTS: Clinical Informatics Health Informatics Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
Cody Ashby, Ph.D.
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cancer genetics and genomic sequencing Bioinformatic tools and algorithms Big data processing, mining and visualization methods Machine learning approaches The study of rural populations
Intawat Nookaew, Ph.D.
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Systems biology and Bioinformatics RNA/DNA modification Long read DNA sequencing Metagenomics Large-scale data analysis and visualization and Deep learning
Donald Johann, Jr., M.Sc., M.D., FACP
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cancer Biology and Bioinformatics Next-Gen Sequencing (NGS) High-Resolution Identity-Based Mass Spectrometry (Proteomics) Laser Capture Microdissection (LCM)
Galina Glazko, Ph.D.
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Develop and apply statistical & computational methods Analyze high dimensional omics data Developing approaches for pathway analysis, network inference & data integration.
David Ussery, Ph.D.
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Translational Bioinformatics High-throughput genomics Bioinformatics DNA structures Third-generation sequencing Bacterial and viral genomics SARS-CoV-2 genomics
Fred Prior, Ph.D.
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Open Science and Open Access data publication Quantitative Imaging and Radiomics Distributed Machine Learning Neuro Imaging Informatics Clinical Trial Data Management