Elana J. Fertig, PhD, FAIMBE
Titles
Director, Institute for Genome Sciences
School Affiliation
School of Medicine
Specialties
Drug Resistance in Cancer Treatment
Computational Science
About
Email: ejfertig@som.umaryland.edu
Elana J. Fertig, PhD, FAIMBE, is the Director of the Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She is internationally-recognized for her work in integrating spatial multi-omics technologies with mathematical models to develop a new predictive medicine paradigm in cancer. Spatial technologies allow researchers to learn about any cell type inside of natural tissue, including gene activity and cell interactions. With over 130 research publications, she is currently principal investigator or core lead on several National Cancer Institute Consortia grants, including the Cancer Systems Biology, Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research, and Translational and Basic Science in Early Lesions Consortia, and the National Institute of Aging Mouse SenNet Consortium. She is a co-investigator on several other major grants totaling more than $30 million. Dr. Fertig earned a B.S. in Physics and Mathematics at Brandeis University and received her Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP). Her unique blend interpreting biological systems by integrating these high-throughput data with artificial intelligence and mathematical modeling techniques is informed by her background in applied mathematics and numerical weather prediction from her graduate training at UMCP.
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