Mayte Suarez-farinas MSc, PhD

Dr. Mayte Suarez-Farinas works in the interface of biomedical research, translational science, and quantitative analysis, developing robust statistical techniques to mine and integrate complex high-throughput data, tailored to the specific disease model, especially on inflammatory skin diseases. She has extensive experience in clinical trial design and statistical and bioinformatics techniques applied to high throughput data, including microarrays, next-generation sequencing data, metabolomics, and proteomics.

Dr. Suarez-Farinas’ research focuses on using system biology approaches that combine mechanistic clinical trials and genomic data to unravel the pathogenesis of diseases, develop disease biomarkers, and define targets for therapeutics.

Using bioinformatics analysis of high-throughput data, she developed molecular phenotypes in psoriasis and atopic dermatitis that allow for reliable measurement of treatment response at the molecular level. These phenotypes facilitate faster screening for effective drugs and unambiguously benchmark multiple drugs in terms of the improvements they show at the molecular level. She develops predictive tools that use genomic data to predict long-term treatment responses to psoriasis treatment after a short course of treatment