Research Projects

Pharmacogenomics
This line of research is to develop informatics approaches to extract phenotypic data (drug exposure and drug reponse) for pharmacogenomics research from EHRs. It inovloves natural language processing, machine learning, and data mining technologies. Currently we are working on extracting medication information from clinical notes. We are collaborating with clinical teams to investigate pharmacogenomics of multiple drugs including wafarin, irinotecan, and tacrolimus.

Cancer epidemologic studies
The specific aim of this study is to develop an automated informatics approach to extract both fine-grained cancer findings and general clinical information from electronic medical records and use them to conduct cancer related epidemiological studies.

Literature mining of nutrition studies
Nutrition plays an important role in disease prevention and treatment. This project is to extract gene/nutrition/disease knowledge from Pubmed articles, thus to facilitate personalized nutrition.

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