Professor
Center of Biostatistics in the Department of Population Health Science and Policy Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinaii
New York, NY, United States
Mayte Suarez-Farinas, PhD, is a Professor at the Center for Biostatistics and the Department of Genetics and Genomics Science of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York. She received an MSc in mathematics from the University of Havana, Cuba, and a PhD in data science from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2003. She started her career in biomedical science in the Center for Clinical and Translational Science at The Rockefeller University, where she developed methodologies for data integration across omics studies and a methodological framework to evaluate drug response at the molecular level in proof-of-concept studies in inflammatory skin diseases. She is now a professor of Biostatistics at Mount Sinai and Assistant Director for the Center of Biostatistics. Her research focus on developing robust statistical techniques and ML models to mine and integrate complex high-throughput data, with an emphasis on immunological diseases. Currently, she is focusing on developing precision medicine algorithms that combine AI with causal inference to predict individual treatment responses in clinical trials.
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Sunday, November 3, 2024
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM