Nicholas Tatonetti

Nicholas Tatonetti is an American bioscientist who is Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Chief Officer of Cancer Data Science at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University. His lab develops data mining approaches to understand clinical and molecular data.

Nicholas Pierino Tatonetti
Tatonetti presents The C19 Weekly in 2020
Alma materStanford University
Arizona State University
Scientific career
InstitutionsColumbia University
ThesisData-driven detection, prediction, and validation of drug-drug interactions (2012)
Doctoral advisorRuss Altman
WebsiteTatonetti Lab

Early life and education

Tatonetti was an undergraduate at Arizona State University.[1] He majored in computational mathematics and biotechnology.[1] In 2008, he completed a bachelor's degree, and moved to Stanford University as a graduate researcher, where he worked with Russ Altman in biomedical informatics.[2] During his PhD, he developed novel statistical methods for observational data mining.[3]

Research and career

In 2012, Tatonetti started his career as the Herbert Irving Assistant Professor in Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. He was made Director of the Clinical Informatics Division in 2013, and Chief Officer for Cancer Data Science in 2022.

Tatonetti uses data science to inform drug design and to evaluate the effectiveness of potential pharmaceutical candidates for specific people.[4] He combines electronic health records and genomics databases with artificial intelligence and machine learning.[4]

Personal life

Tatonetti has described himself as pansexual and gender non-conforming.[5]

Selected publications

References
  1. "Faces of AMIA: Nicholas Tatonetti". AMIA - American Medical Informatics Association. Retrieved 2022-10-05.
  2. Hackett, Stephen M. (2011-05-25). "Doctoral candidate uses MacBook Pro to track drug interactions". Macgasm. Retrieved 2022-10-05.
  3. "Nicholas Tatonetti – OHDSI". Retrieved 2022-10-05.
  4. "Nicholas P. Tatonetti, PhD". Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. 2022-05-23. Retrieved 2022-10-05.
  5. "Nicholas Tatonetti". 500 Queer Scientists. Retrieved 2022-10-05.
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