Lana Garmire PhD

Dr. Garmire is an awardee of US Presidential Early Career Scientists and Engineers in 2019, the highest honor bestowed to the most outstanding early career scientists and engineers in the United States. Before joining the University of Michigan DCMB department, she rapidly rose to tenure (Dec. 2012 to Jun. 2017) at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center, and has become a nationally and internationally recognizable translational bioinformatics scientist, leading a multidisciplinary team of computational and experimental human genomics. Garmire has won numerous competitive federal grant awards as the PI, including NIH/NIGMS P20 COBRE (2014-2018, Project Leader), NIH/BD2K K01 award (2014-2021), three concurrent NIH R01 grant awards from NICHD (2016-2021), NLM (2016-2021), and NLM (2019-2022).

In 2012, she won the first bioinformatics NIH SBIR grant for Asuragen Inc (a spin-off of Ambion, the RNA company), and then resumed her tenure-track faculty position in September 2012. Dr. Garmire collaborates with a variety of top researchers nationally and internationally. She has published over 50 papers in high-quality journals, including Cell and Nature. She has mentored over 40 MD fellows, postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates of various academic backgrounds, in Biology, Mathematics, Physics, (bio)Statistics, Bioengineering, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering. She has served on various NIH study sections. She is an Associate Editor of BMC Bioinformatics and Guest Editor of PLoS Computational Biology.