Professor of Genetics and Computer Science

Research Interests
Translational bioinformatics, system biology, data mining, advanced visual analytics for therapeutic discovery and clinical decision-making applications.

Chen Lab

Assistant Professor of Genetics

Research Interests
Currently, Chong and his lab are working to develop algorithms for next-generation sequencing data analysis and research genomic rearrangements and disease genomics.

Chong Lab
Chong Lab at UAB Genetics

Professor of Medicine

Research Interests
His current research involves development of systems to support clinical and translational researchers and exploring new paradigms for improving electronic health records. 

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Research Interests
The current focus of his research is to design electronic clinical documentation systems that can increase clinicians’ situation awareness, improve the medical-decision making process, and reduce the EHR-associated documentation burden.

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Research Interests
Her areas of specialty include single-cell transcriptomics/genomics, Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data analysis, bioinformatics pipeline development, and other bioinformatics, genomics and epigenetics applications.

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Research Interests
His research focuses on clinical informatics, clinical decision support, and precision medicine, and his clinical interests include solid tumors, precision oncology, and blood and marrow transplantation.

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Research Interests
The current focus of his research is to build the tools, methods and infrastructure needed to explore the relationship between genotype and phenotype - with a focus on clinical natural language processing to extract human phenotype information from biomedical text. He is actively exploring the application of recurrent neural networks in this problem space.

Associate Professor of Microbiology

Research Interests
His interests cover broad areas of bioinformatics, from data modeling, databases and software pipeline development for high-throughput workflows, through analysis and innovative visualization approaches for complex biological data sets. 

Associate Professor of Medicine and Family and Community Medicine

Research Interests
Her areas of expertise include biomedical ontologies, health standards, electronic health records (EHRs), and informatics education.