Jill P. Mesirov PhD

Jill Mesirov is associate vice chancellor for computational health sciences and professor of medicine UC San Diego School of Medicine. She is a member of the Moores Cancer Center at UCSD where she serves as co-lead for the cancer genomes and networks research program.

Mesirov is a computational scientist who has spent many years working in the area of high-performance computing on problems that arise in science, engineering, and business applications. Her research focuses on cancer genomics applying machine-learning methods to functional data derived from patient tumors. The lab develops analysis methods for molecular data to determine the underlying biological mechanisms of tumor subtypes, to stratify patients according to their relative risks of relapse, and identify novel drug targets. Mesirov is committed to the development of practical, accessible software tools to bring these methods to the general biomedical research community. Her tools support over 300,000 users worldwide.