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Associate Professor Ece Uzun at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Founding Director of Clinical Bioinformatics at Brown University Health

Dr. Ece Uzun is an Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Founding Director of Clinical Bioinformatics at Brown University Health. She serves as the Deputy Director of Brown Center for Clinical Cancer Informatics and Data Science (CCIDS). She is also a member of Brown University Center for Computational Molecular Biology and Brown University Data Science Institute. She received B.S in Chemical Engineering at Istanbul Technical University and M.S. in Biological Sciences and Bioengineering at Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey. She completed her PhD in Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. During her PhD, she studied mathematical modeling of drug delivery systems. During her postdoctoral studies at Brown University, she worked on bioinformatics and computational genetics focusing on neurodevelopmental disorders and autism.
In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Uzun leads a research group focusing on development of multi-modal deep learning-based models to predict cancer recurrence and drug response using clinical, genomic and whole-slide image data from patients. Her research group also studies protein-protein interaction networks in cancer for drug repurposing using genomic and spatial transcriptomics data. Her research group has developed novel genomic variation detection algorithms and tools. She is the Editor-in-Chief in JMIR Bioinformatics and Biotechnology journal. She is the Chair of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Genomics and Translational Bioinformatics Working Group and co-Chair of the Women in AMIA (WIA) Steering Committee.