Mayte Suarez-Farinas | Mount Sinai

About Me

I have vast experience in clinical trials design and statistical techniques as well as data mining and bioinformatics techniques applied to high throughput data, including arrays, next generation sequencing data, metabolomics and proteomics. For the last 10 years, I have been working in the interface of biomedical research, translational science and quantitative analysis, successfully developing collaborations with researchers of different areas of biomedical research at several institutions. I am a Research Assistant Professor at the Laboratory of Investigative Dermatology and the co-director of the biostatistics team at the Rockefeller University Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSA), where I oversee the design of clinical and research protocols and participate in data analysis. I am skilled in multivariate and longitudinal analysis, time series, and pattern recognition and machine learning methods. My long terms goals are to develop robust statistical techniques to mine and integrate complex high throughput data, tailored to the specific disease model, especially on inflammatory skin diseases such as atopic dermatitis.

Language

English

Position

PROFESSOR | Population Health Science and Policy, PROFESSOR | Genetics and Genomic Sciences

Research Topics

Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Gene Expressions, Genetics, Genomics, Inflammation, Systems Biology

Multi-Disciplinary Training Areas

Genetics and Genomic Sciences [GGS]

Education

MSc, University of Havana. School of Mathematics and Computer Sciences.

MSc, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Computational Statistics Group

PhD, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Computational Statistics Group

Postdoctoral Studies, The Rockefeller University. Laboratory of Mathematical Physics

Awards

2015

The Irma T. Hirschl / Monique Weill-Caulier Research Award

2005

Frederick Seitz Fellowship

Rockefeller University

2003

Woman in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship

Rockefeller University

1999

National Ph.D Fellowship

Brazilian National Research Council (CNPQ)

1997

National MsC. Fellowship

Brazilian Ministry of Education (CAPES)

1995

Abel Award (Best MSc Thesis)

University of Havana, School of Mathematics and Computer Scs.

1995

Diploma de Oro (graduated with Magna Cum Laude Honor)

University of Havana

Research

Dr. 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 have extensive experience in clinical trials design and statistical and bioinformatics techniques applied to high throughput data, including microarrays, next generation sequencing data, metabolomics and proteomics.

Dr. Suarez-Farinas’ research focus 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 had developed molecular phenotypes in psoriasis and atopic dermatitis that allows to reliably measure treatment response at the molecular level. This phenotypes facilitates faster screening for effective drugs, unambiguously benchmark multiple drugs in terms of the improvements they show at molecular level.

She develops predictive tools that uses genomic data to predict long-term treatment response to psoriasis treatment after a short course of treatment.