Marylyn D. Ritchie, PhD
Principal Investigator
Director, Center for Translational Bioinformatics, Institute for Biomedical Informatics (IBI)
Associate Director for Bioinformatics, Institute for Biomedical Informatics (IBI)
Associate Director, Center for Precision Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
A301 Richards Building
3700 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Curriculum Vitae
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Marylyn D. Ritchie, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Genetics, Director of the Center for Translational Bioinformatics, Associate Director for Bioinformatics in the Institute for Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Dr. Ritchie is also Associate Director for the Penn Center for Precision Medicine. Dr. Ritchie is a translational bioinformatics scientist, biomedical informatician, and computational human geneticist with a focus on developing novel approaches for understanding the relationship between our genome and human phenotypes. She has expertise in developing novel bioinformatics tools for complex analysis of big data in genetics, genomics, and clinical databases, in particular in the area of Pharmacogenomics. Some of her methods include Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction (MDR), the Analysis Tool for Heritable and Environmental Network Associations (ATHENA), and the Biosoftware suite for annotating/ filtering variants and genomic regions as well as building models of biological relevance for gene-gene interactions and rare-variant burden/dispersion tests. Dr. Ritchie has over 15 years of experience in the analysis of complex data and has authored over 300 publications. Dr. Ritchie has received several awards and honors including selection as a Genome Technology Rising Young Investigator in 2006, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in 2010, a KAVLI Frontiers of Science fellow by the National Academy of Science from 2011-2014, and she was named one of the most highly cited researchers in her field by Thomas Reuters in 2014. Dr. Ritchie has extensive experience in all aspects of genetic epidemiology and translational bioinformatics as it relates to human genomics. She also has extensive expertise in dealing with big data and complex analysis including GWAS, next-generation sequencing, data integration of meta-dimensional omics data, Phenome-wide Association Studies (PheWAS), and development of data visualization approaches.
Education
Ph.D. Statistical Genetics
Vanderbilt University
2004
M.S. Applied Statistics
Vanderbilt University
2002
B.S. Biology
University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown
1999
Honors and Awards
1999 Graduated Summa Cum Laude, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown
2000- 2002 NIH Breast Cancer Research Training Grant
2001 Vanderbilt University, Charles R. Park Student Travel Award
2002- 2003 NLM Bioinformatics Training Grant
2002 Vanderbilt University Graduate School Travel Grant
2003 Vanderbilt University Dissertation Enhancement Grant
2003 Vanderbilt University Graduate School Travel Grant
2003 Vanderbilt University, Charles R. Park Student Travel Award
2004 Best Paper Award, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
2006 Genome Technology, Rising Young Investigator Award
2010 Sloan Research Fellow
2011-2014 KAVLI Frontiers in Science Fellow, National Academy of Science
2014 Member, Thomas Reuters, Most Highly Cited Researchers
2015 Paul Berg Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State University
2016 E. Allen Deaver, High Potential Leadership Fellow, Geisinger Health System
2017 First Place, AMIA “Why Informatics” Video Contest
Memberships in Professional Societies
American Statistical Association (ASA) : Middle TN Chapter Representative (2004-2006)
American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)
International Neural Network Society (INNS)
International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES): Member of Education Committee (2009-2013)
International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ISGEC)
International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)