
Vikas Pejaver, PhD
About Me
Dr. Vikas Pejaver is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Genomic Health and the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences in the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His research focuses on the development and application of machine learning methods to relate genetic variation to molecular function and disease phenotypes, with a particular emphasis on rare variants and diseases. His work utilizes a broad array of machine learning techniques on genomic, protein and electronic health record data sets. Dr. Pejaver has a Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology from the People’s Education Society (PES) Institute of Technology (now PES University) in Bengaluru, India. After that, he received his Master’s degree in Bioinformatics and doctoral degree in Informatics from the School of Informatics and Computing (now School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering) at Indiana University, Bloomington. Dr. Pejaver then completed his postdoctoral training at the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education (BIME) and the eScience Institute at the University of Washington (UW), where he received the Moore/Sloan and Washington Research Foundation Innovation in Data Science Postdoctoral Fellowship. He also received a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. At UW, he was also awarded the Fred Wolf Mentorship Award for his active roles in training and mentoring students in BIME.
Language
English
Position
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Genetics and Genomic Sciences, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Artificial Intelligence and Human Health
Multi-Disciplinary Training Areas
Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies in Medicine [AIET], Genetics and Genomic Sciences [GGS]
Publications
Selected Publications
- Calibration of additional computational tools expands ClinGen recommendation options for variant classification with PP3/BP4 criteria. Timothy Bergquist, Sarah L. Stenton, Emily A.W. Nadeau, Alicia B. Byrne, Marc S. Greenblatt, Steven M. Harrison, Sean V. Tavtigian, Anne O'Donnell-Luria, Leslie G. Biesecker, Predrag Radivojac, Steven E. Brenner, Vikas Pejaver, Ahmad A. Tayoun, Anne O'Donnell-Luria, Garry R. Cutting, Heidi L. Rehm, Izabela Karbassi, Jessica Mester, Jonathan S. Berg, Leslie G. Biesecker, Marc S. Greenblatt, Natasha T. Strande, Peter Kang, Rachel Karchin, Scott Topper, Sean V. Tavtigian, Sharon E. Plon, Sian Ellard, Steven E. Brenner, Steven M. Harrison, Tina Pesaran. Genetics in Medicine
- Evaluation of enzyme activity predictions for variants of unknown significance in Arylsulfatase A. Shantanu Jain, Marena Trinidad, Thanh Binh Nguyen, Kaiya Jones, Santiago Diaz Neto, Fang Ge, Ailin Glagovsky, Cameron Jones, Giankaleb Moran, Boqi Wang, Kobra Rahimi, Sümeyra Zeynep Çalıcı, Luis R. Cedillo, Silvia Berardelli, Buse Özden, Ken Chen, Panagiotis Katsonis, Amanda Williams, Olivier Lichtarge, Sadhna Rana, Swatantra Pradhan, Rajgopal Srinivasan, Rakshanda Sajeed, Dinesh Joshi, Eshel Faraggi, Robert Jernigan, Andrzej Kloczkowski, Jierui Xu, Zigang Song, Selen Özkan, Natàlia Padilla, Xavier de la Cruz, Rocio Acuna-Hidalgo, Andrea Grafmüller, Laura T.Jiménez Barrón, Matteo Manfredi, Castrense Savojardo, Giulia Babbi, Pier Luigi Martelli, Rita Casadio, Yuanfei Sun, Shaowen Zhu, Yang Shen, Fabrizio Pucci, Marianne Rooman, Gabriel Cia, Daniele Raimondi, Pauline Hermans, Sofia Kwee, Ella Chen, Courtney Astore, Akash Kamandula, Vikas Pejaver, Rashika Ramola, Michelle Velyunskiy, Daniel Zeiberg, Reet Mishra, Teague Sterling, Jennifer L. Goldstein, Jose Lugo-Martinez, Sufyan Kazi, Sindy Li, Kinsey Long, Steven E. Brenner, Constantina Bakolitsa, Predrag Radivojac, Dean Suhr, Teryn Suhr, Wyatt T. Clark. Human Genetics
- CAGI6 ID panel challenge: assessment of phenotype and variant predictions in 415 children with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). Maria Cristina Aspromonte, Alessio Del Conte, Shaowen Zhu, Wuwei Tan, Yang Shen, Yexian Zhang, Qi Li, Maggie Haitian Wang, Giulia Babbi, Samuele Bovo, Pier Luigi Martelli, Rita Casadio, Azza Althagafi, Sumyyah Toonsi, Maxat Kulmanov, Robert Hoehndorf, Panagiotis Katsonis, Amanda Williams, Olivier Lichtarge, Su Xian, Wesley Surento, Vikas Pejaver, Sean D. Mooney, Uma Sunderam, Rajgopal Srinivasan, Alessandra Murgia, Damiano Piovesan, Silvio C.E. Tosatto, Emanuela Leonardi. Human Genetics