Dartmouth CTSI (SYNERGY) is pleased to announce its inaugural CORES (Consortium of Rural States) Awardee
Following review by the Dartmouth CTSI CORES Steering Committee, Dr. Siming Zhao was selected as Dartmouth’s inaugural CORES Awardee.
2025 CORES Pilot Awardee (Cohort Year 1)
Siming Zhao, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Biomedical Data Science
Project: Leveraging causal genetic mechanisms to achieve generalizable polygenic prediction of health and disease in rural populations
Dr. Zhao's research focuses on studying the genetic etiology of human diseases, in particular, cancer. Her lab develops computational methods and tools to analyze large-scale genomic datasets, aiming to translate data into biological insights. Specific areas of interest include modeling of mutation selection in cancer, genotype-phenotype association analysis, integration of multiple types of genomic datasets for disease gene discovery.