Mercedeh Javanbakht Movassagh

Dr. Movassagh is an Associate Research Scientist with a focus on infectious disease computational biology and bioinformatics, at Yale School of Medicine. She got her BS from University of Virginia, Masters in Biochemistry and Bioinformatics from George Washington University and PhD from University of Massachusetts Medical School in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Her post-doctoral fellow ship was at Harvard School of Public Health and Dana Farber Cancer Institute departments of Biostatistics and Data science respectively with a focus on infectious disease computational biology and global public health in under resourced communities and countries. She is also interested in investigating the role of pathogens in development of diseases in neonates, and children such as but not limited to neonatal sepsis, post infectious hydrocephalus, Burkitt Lymphoma and diarrhea using computational biology and bioinformatics analysis and methods development.