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Rachel  Karchin, Ph.D.

Rachel Karchin, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Institute for Computational Medicine

Karchin Lab
Hackerman Hall 217A
(410) 516-5578
karchin@jhu.edu
http://karchinlab.org/

Education

Ph.D., Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2003
M.S., Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2000
B.A., Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1998

Research Interests

Genetic variation is critical to our susceptibility to diseases and response to medications. Yet the functional consequences of most genetic variants are unknown. We are working to predict these consequences using computation, by integrating information from molecular modeling and sequence analysis with clinical patient data and in vitro functional studies, through collaborations with physicians, genetic counselors, and experimental biologists. We are particularly interested in inherited cancer susceptibilities and gain of function mutations in tumor genomes.

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