McWeeney, Shannon, Ph.D.

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1. Resource Description

   "Dr. Shannon McWeeney is the Head of the Division of Bioinformatics and Computatational Biology in the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, and a Faculty member in the Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. She is the Director of the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute Bioinformatics Shared Resource and the OCTRI Translational Bioinformatics Program. In 2010, Dr. McWeeney was selected as a Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow. The focus of her research is on the development and application of statistical and computational methodologies for functional genomics data such as gene expression (microarray and RNA-seq), chIP-Seq and proteomics. Applications of this work have included such complex traits as diabetes, cancer and alcoholism. There is also a strong interest in her group in network inference, particularly for applications in cancer and infectious disease. Related to these analyses is a long standing interest in data cleaning and integration."

2. First Name

   Shannon

3. Last Name

   McWeeney

4. Title

   Head of the Division of Bioinformatics and Computatational Biology

5. Title

   Program Director, Translational Bioinformatics, OCTRI Biomedical Informatics Program

6. Website(s)

   http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/schools/school-of-medicine/departments/clinical-departments/dmice/people/shannon-mcweeney.cfm