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March 13, 2025, 12:00p.m. - 1:00p.m. EDT

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Leveraging Clinical and Molecular Data to Better Understand Sex Differences in Alzheimer’s Disease 

Marina is currently a Professor and the Acting Director at the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute at UCSF. Prior to that she has worked as a Senior Research Scientist at Pfizer where she focused on developing Precision Medicine strategies in drug discovery. She completed her PhD in Biomedical Informatics at Stanford University. Dr. Sirota’s research experience in translational bioinformatics spans nearly 20 years during which she has co-authored over 170 scientific publications. Her research interests lie in developing computational integrative methods and applying these approaches in the context of disease diagnostics and therapeutics with a special focus on women’s health. The Sirota laboratory is funded by NIA, NLM, NIAMS, Pfizer, March of Dimes and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. As a young leader in the field, she has been awarded the AMIA Young Investigator Award in 2017.  She leads the UCSF March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center at UCSF as well as co-directs ENACT, a center to study precision medicine for endometriosis. Dr. Sirota also is the founding director of the AI4ALL program at UCSF, with the goal of introducing high school girls to applications of AI and machine learning in biomedicine.

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Previous Speakers

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Vera Regitz-Zagrosek
January 11, 2024
Dr. Melissa Holmes
February 8, 2024
Dr. Armin Raznahan
March 14, 2024
   
Dr. Larry Cahill
January 12, 2023
Dr. Londa Schiebinger
February 9, 2023
Dr. Sabra Klein
March 9, 2023
     
Dr. Patricia Silveyra 
January 13, 2022
Dr. Ketema Paul
February 10, 2022
Dr. Liisa Galea
March 17, 2022
     
Kaveeta P. Vasisht M.D.
January 14, 2021
Jill Becker, Ph.D.
February 11, 2021
Rhonda Voskuhl, M.D.
March 11, 2021

 

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