Faculty
Marina Sirota, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics
Prior to this position, Marina was the Lead Research Scientist in Systems Medicine at Stanford. She has worked as a Senior Research Scientist at Pfizer where she focused on developing Precision Medicine strategies in drug discovery. Marina has a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford University, where her graduate work focused on predicting drug-disease relationships based on gene expression to identify novel therapeutic indications for known drugs.
Data Science in Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
The Sirota lab develops incremental computational methods in the context of disease diagnostics and therapeutics – especially leveraging ‘omics and clinical data to better understand the role of the immune system.