Informatics

Informatics combines a multitude of disciplines including biology, computer science, sociology, and information technology to harness the power of data with the ultimate goal of improving human health and health care delivery. This integrative field drives advancements in health by examining biomedical data, information, and knowledge for scientific inquiry and problem-solving.

Deborah Goodman-Gruen, MD, MPH, PhD

Associate Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Research Interests

Some of Dr. Goodman-Gruen’s research interests are cancer epidemiology and chronic disease prevention.

Yunxia Lu

Yunxia Lu, MSc, PhD

Associate Professor of Population Health & Disease Prevention

Affiliated, Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Research Interests

Some of Dr. Lu’s research interests are in cancer etiology and prevention, cancer prognosis, obesity epidemiology, and pharmacoepidemiology.

Trina Norden-Krichmar

Trina Norden-Krichmar, MS, PhD

Associate Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

 

Research Interests

Some of Norden-Krichmar’s research interests are in bioinformatics, genetic factors in human diseases, gene expression analysis, methylation, non-coding RNA, metagenomics, medical, environmental and marine genomics, and more.

Min_Zhang

Min Zhang, MD, PhD, MS, PhD

Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Director of Biostatistics Shared Resource, UCI Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Research Interests

Dr. Zhang’s research interests include bioinformatics, statistical genetics and genomics, machine learning, genome-wide association studies, and RNA-seq data analysis.