Anatomy & Physiology: Current Research

Anatomy & Physiology: Current Research
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ISSN: 2161-0940

Nancy Lan Guo

Nancy Lan Guo

Nancy Lan Guo
Associate Professor, Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center, Adjunct Faculty of Computer Science
West Virginia University, USA

Biography

Dr. Guo got her Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science in 2004 and B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 1997. She is Program Assistant Director of West Virginia Clinical & Translational Science Institute for Biomedical Informatics.  She had 21 peer-reviewed publications in the past three years.  Her work in lung cancer gene signatures was nominated for 2007 CDC Excellence in Science Awards. Her work in breast cancer gene signatures was selected to feature the cover of Clinical Cancer Research [April, 2007] which received national news coverage from Newswise, Medical News Today, NewsRx, etc. She has five pending patents for the gene signatures she identified for personalized therapy. She was awarded a $1M R01 grant from National Library of Medicine (LM009500) in 2008 and a $1M NIH stimulus grant to advance translational research (NCRR P20 RR16440) in 2009.
 

Research Interest

Dr. Guo got her Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science in 2004 and B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 1997. She is Program Assistant Director of West Virginia Clinical & Translational Science Institute for Biomedical Informatics.  She had 21 peer-reviewed publications in the past three years.  Her work in lung cancer gene signatures was nominated for 2007 CDC Excellence in Science Awards. Her work in breast cancer gene signatures was selected to feature the cover of Clinical Cancer Research [April, 2007] which received national news coverage from Newswise, Medical News Today, NewsRx, etc. She has five pending patents for the gene signatures she identified for personalized therapy. She was awarded a $1M R01 grant from National Library of Medicine (LM009500) in 2008 and a $1M NIH stimulus grant to advance translational research (NCRR P20 RR16440) in 2009.
 

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