Founder & CEO
Patricia is a bioinformatics scientist with over 20 years of experience in biomedical research and has been awarded several contracts and grants from the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health. She earned her Master’s degree in computer science from the Technical University of Munich and her PhD. in Bioinformatics from Florida International University. Her research and career activities are focused on assisting the biomedical community with access to quality data and computational tools that improve and accelerate knowledge discovery in all aspects of medicine and health care. In her research, she combines data integration methods with algorithmic, statistical, and machine learning approaches to discover or extract medical/biological knowledge from clinical/health records, imaging data, and high-throughput biomedical data, such as NGS and omics data. She has developed computational tools for phylogenetic and machine learning analysis of RNA viruses such as HIV-1 and Hepatitis C viruses and published several infectious disease papers. She works in collaboration with renowned experts in biomedical translational research, PhDs in academia, and MDs doing clinical trials, and appreciates the mutual exchange of ideas that leads to discoveries, biomarkers, and treatments.