Lana Garmire, Ph.D.

Michigan Neuroscience Institute Affiliate
Associate Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
Associate Professor of Biostatistics

North Campus Research Complex
1600 Huron Parkway
Building 520, Room 3366
Ann Arbor, MI 48105

Biography

Dr. Garmire is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in translational and biomedical informatics. She started the first tenure-track faculty position in University of Hawaii Cancer Center later 2012 and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2017. Dr. Garmire then moved to University of Michigan in 2018 to expand the research to multi-modal research (genomics, EMR and pathological imaging analysis).

Dr. Garmire has delivered over 90 invited talks to institutes including National Library of Medicine (NLM) and National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and have mentored over 90 Assistant Professors, M.D. fellows, postdocs, graduate students and undergraduates of various academic backgrounds, in Biology, Mathematics, Physics, (bio)Statistics, Bioengineering, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Most Ph.D. and postdoc trainees became faculty or senior scientists in private sectors.

Dr. Garmire has served on various NIH study sections and currently am a standing member of BDMA study section and is on the editorial advisory board for journals Genome Biology and Journal of Proteome Research. 

Credentials

  • B.S., Ocean University of China, Qingdao (2001)
  • M.A., Statistics (2005), University of California-Berkeley
  • Ph.D., Comparative Biochemistry (Computational Biology focus (2007), University of California-Berkeley

Published Articles or Reviews

  • U.S. Presidential Early Career Scientists and Engineers Award (2019)
  • American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Fellow (since 2022)