Team

Translational Informatics Team Members

Chief: Christophe Lambert, PhDChristophe has led the division since March 2022, and is PI for multiple extramurally funded awards, including NIH Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE) and a DOD DTRA project for anti-viral molecular discovery, and was PI for a multi-year PCORI award. He also has faculty appointments in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Computer Science, and is the CTSC Informatics Core Lead. His research interests include machine learning applied to clinical informatics.

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Team Members Listed Alphabetically

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Cristian Bologa, PhD Cristian is a key contributor to several projects including Illuminating the Druggable Genome (IDG) Knowledge Management Center, and Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE), DrugCentral.org, and others. His research interests include computational pharmaceutical discovery.

Research Professor

Jeremy Edwards, PhDJeremy is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. He is the PI for the Illuminating the Druggable Genome (IDG) Knowledge Management Center (KMC).

Professor and Department Chair

Esperanza Gonzales

Office Assistant

Praveen Kumar, CS PhD Praveen in November 2022 successfully defended his PhD dissertation 'Machine Learning Methods for Computational Phenotyping Using Patient Healthcare Data with Noisy Labels' with advisor Christophe Lambert. As graduate research assistant, since 2018, he has contributed his CS and ML expertise to several projects, and will fill an expanded key role as a research staff member.

Research Assistant Professor

Scott Malec, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Stephen Mathias, PhD Steve has contributed with his expertise in genetics, molecular biology, software engineering and databases, in key roles to many projects, including Illuminating the Druggable Genome (IDG) Knowledge Management Center (KMC), as lead developer for Target Central Resource Database (TCRD).

Sr. Research Scientist

Vincent Metzger, PhD Vince joined the division in 2021 and has been a key contributor to projects including Illuminating the Druggable Genome (IDG) Knowledge Management Center (KMC) and Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE). He is the project manager for Target Illumination and Novelty Explorer (TINX).

Post-doctoral Research Fellow

Fariha Moomtaheen

Data Scientist 

Tonya Morgan

Unit Administrator 3

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Tudor Oprea, MD, PhD Tudor founded the Translational Informatics Division in 2012, formerly the Division of Biocomputing, which he led as chief until February 2022. His leadership and contributions to the division, other units of UNM, other institutions, and the global scientific community, are numerous, varied, and widely recognized, reflected in his publications and extramural funding.

Emeritus Professor

Jack Ringer

Graduate Research Assistant

UNMCCC

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Avinash Sahu, PhD

Assistant Professor

Kristan Schneider, PhD

Professor

Bivek Sharma Panthi

Student Research Assistant

Swastika Tenkila Purushotham

Graduate Research Assistant

Jason Timm, PhD Jason was promoted from staff scientist to research assistant professor in 2022, and contributes his expertise in computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP) to multiple projects. He is the PI for a research collaboration with a commercial company Givaudan.

Research Assistant Professor

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Jeremy Yang, PhD Jeremy is a key contributor to multiple research projects including NIH Illuminating the Druggable Genome, Common Fund Data Ecosystem, and is the instructor for Independent Study in Biomedical Science

Research Associate Professor

Affiliated Contributors

Jeremiah Abok, PhDJeremiah is a contributor to the project TICTAC: Target Illumination Clinical Trials Analytics with Cheminformatics

Student

Chemistry and

Chemical Biology

Sorin Avram, PhDSorin is the lead scientist and developer for DrugCentral.org, through an ongoing research collaborarion and contract.

Coriolan Dragulescu

Institute of Chemistry

Timisoara Romania

Alina Bora, PhD Alina is a contributor for DrugCentral.org, through an ongoing research collaborarion and contract.

Coriolan Dragulescu

Institute of Chemistry

Timisoara, Romania

Ana Borota, PhD Ana is a contributor for DrugCentral.org, through an ongoing research collaborarion and contract.

Coriolan Dragulescu

Institute of Chemistry

Timisoara, Romania

Daniel Cannon Daniel earned a MS in Computer Science from UNM before co-founding Iterative Consulting, which was acquired by Elevato in 2021. He and his team has contributed computer science, cloud computing, and DevOps expertise to several projects, especially Target Importance and Novelty Explorer (TINX).

President and

Co-founder

Iterative Consulting

Ramona Curpan, PhDRamona is a key contributor for DrugCentral.org, through an ongoing research collaborarion and contract.

Coriolan Dragulescu

Institute of Chemistry

Timisoara, Romania

Lilian Halip, PhD Lili is a key contributor for DrugCentral.org, through an ongoing research collaborarion and contract.

Coriolan Dragulescu

Institute of Chemistry

Timisoara, Romania

Jeffrey KnockelJeff contributes software engineering expertise for DrugCentral.org.

Research Assistant

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Christopher Southan

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Associate

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Anna Waller, PhD Anna contributes in a key role as project manager for Illuminating the Druggable Genome (IDG) Knowledge Management Center (KMC) and Resource Dissemination and Outreach Center (RDOC).

Associate Scientist

Project Manager

Department of Pathology

Former Members

Jerome G Abear Jerry contributed system administration expertise over many years with the division, and retired in 2022.

System Analyst

Jessica Binder, PhD Jessica was a key contributor with expertise in molecular biology and in key roles including lead author for an Alzheimer target discovery paper, and project manager of Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE), from 2020-2022.

Post Doctoral Fellow

Giovanni Bocci, PhD Giovanni was a key contributor for several projects, including as lead author for Biopharmaceutics Drug Disposition Classification System (BDDCS) papers.

Post Doctoral Fellow

Joel Berendzen, PhD Joel was lead researcher for analysis of AlphaFold applied to drug target illumination, in 2021.

Sr. Scientist

Danny Byrd Danny contributed expertise in software engineering and machine learning applied to knowledge graph based target illumination, and as lead developer for ProteinGraphML package, in 2019.

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Grace Faustino

Professional Consultant, Technical

Serena HendersonSerena has been an undergraduate administrative assistant in the division since 2022, contributing to purchasing, and administering the course Independent Study in Biomedical Data Science (ISBDS).

Admin Assistant

Jarett Hines-Kay Jarrett contributed expertise in biology and communication skills, as a key contributor to the project CARLSBAD. He designed, authored and launched the division website.

Research Specialist

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Jayme Holmes Jayme is a key contributor to several projects including Illuminating the Druggable Genome (IDG) Knowledge Management Center (KMC) and Resource Dissemination and Outreach Center (RDOC), and Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE), and DrugCentral.org, as lead UI developer.

IT Project Mgr 3

Priyansh Kedia

Visiting Scholar

Christina Klauber Christina served as division administrator and program manager, contributing in key roles including budget and grant management.

Program Manager

Phillip Kroth, M.D, M.S Phil was Director, Biomedical Informatics Research, Training and Scholarship, for UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center (HSLIC), founding the Clinical Informatics Fellowship, the Biomedical Informatics Seminar Series (BioMISS), and many other initiatives, while at UNM (2004-2020).

Professor

Subramani Mani Ph.DSubramani contributed medical and computer science expertise with focus on applying machine learning to electronic health record (EHR) datasets.

Associate Professor

Stuart Nelson, MDStuart contributed with expertise in medicine and medical informatics, and biomedical databases, with leadership roles including research in semantics of drug indications.

Visiting Professor

Naresh Nepal, PhDNaresh contributed data analysis expertise focused on observational health data science.

Research Scientist

Mohammed Quazi, PhDMohammed successfully defended his statistics PhD dissertation in May of 2022. He contributed statistics, programming, and machine learning expertise for projects including Illuminating the Druggable Genome (IDG).

Graduate Research Assistant

Ricardo Medrano Rodriguez

Office Assistant

Nicholas Stanford Nicholas contributes software engineering and web development expertise for several projects.

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Oleg Ursu, PhDOleg contributed in key roles for many projects, in a variety of research areas, while at UNM (2006-2018), initally as Post-doctoral Fellow, reaching the rank of Research Professor. His areas of expertise include chemistry, chemical biology, drug discovery, computer science, and biomedical informatics. Among many contributions, he was initial technical lead for DrugCentral.org.

Research Professor

Tom Wilson, PhDTom contributed pharmacological expertise, with a key role in curation and analysis of veterinary data for DrugCentral.org.

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Gergely Zahoránszky-Köhalmi, PhDGergely earned a PhD in Biomedical Sciences at UNM (2011-2016) while contributing in key roles to several projects, notably CARLSBAD.

Data Scientist

Jimena HerreraJimena was an undergraduate administrative assistant in the division since 2022, contributing to office administration, and website design and maintenance.

Admin Assistant