Founder, CEO & Chief Technology and Data Officer (CTDO)
Patricia is a senior data scientist, software engineer, and experienced bioinformatician with over 20 years of experience in biomedical research and software development. She 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 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 AI/ML, 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. With experience in clinical informatics, clinical studies, and managing an NGS wet lab, she effectively bridges the gap between complex biological data generation and its clinical application, ensuring data integrity and actionable insights from genomic workflows. As a software engineer, she has developed software platforms for data management and computational tools for phylogenetic and machine learning analysis of biomedical data, with multiple scientific publications. She works in collaboration with renowned experts in biomedical translational research, PhDs in academia, and MDs doing clinical trials, as well as data scientists from the global Research Data Alliance (RDA) organization, and appreciates the mutual exchange of ideas that leads to discoveries, biomarkers, and treatments.