Lixia Yao
Alumni
- Current Affiliation: Investigator at GlaxoSmithKline R&D
- Previous Affiliation at IGSB: PhD student in Dr. Andrey Rzhetksy’s lab
Contact Information
Address while at IGSB:
The University of Chicago
KCBD, 900 East 57th Street
Chicago, IL. 60637
Bio
As a student of Dr. Andrey Rzhetsky’s lab, she focused on data mining and data integration for drug target priotization;
Biomedical terminology/ontology evaluation
Now, Dr. Yao works as a scientist for GlaxoSmithKline, where she works on drug repurposing, biomarker discovery, patient stratification, combination therapy and other new business development by mining real world observatory data, in particular electronic health records (EHR) data.