Biography
Dr. Erich Baker is a Professor of Bioinformatics, in the Department of Computer Science. He earned a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame in 1994, a M.S. in Biomedical Science in 1996 from Barry University and a Ph.D. in Comparative and Experimental Medicine from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Before coming to Baylor in 2002, he was a post-doctoral fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the Genome Annotation and System Modeling Group.
Research Interest
Dr. Baker research interests include areas of bioinformatics, data analytics, and distributed database design. He has published in areas of systems biology, functional genomics, and distributed analysis systems, where he has aided in the development of several large-scale analysis systems, including GeneWeaver.org and the MATRR resource. His research has been supported by NIH, NSF, DoE and DoD grants.
Bernard Friedenson
Associate Professor
University of Illinois Chicago
USA
Biography
Bernard Friedenson is a PhD research scientist authoring nearly 70 publications. Friedenson received an NIH research career development award and recently won an Innocentive Award in competition with nearly 400 other scientists. After a B.A. in honors chemistry-mathematics at the University of Minnesota Duluth and a PhD in biochemistry-organic chemistry at the University of Minnesota, he did post-doctoral work at Roswell Park Memorial Institute, where he rose to senior cancer research scientist, specializing in immunology. As a faculty member at the University of Illinois Chicago, he acquired 13 years further training in medical sciences, molecular medicine and genomics. B.F. has chaired sessions at international cancer meetings and serves as a reviewer for multiple journals. One of his publications is still advancing among the top 100 most accessed among about 360 BioMed Central journals.
Research Interest
Immunogenomics, Cancer Genomics, Genomic Medicine
Biography
Dr. Erich Baker is a Professor of Bioinformatics, in the Department of Computer Science. He earned a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame in 1994, a M.S. in Biomedical Science in 1996 from Barry University and a Ph.D. in Comparative and Experimental Medicine from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Before coming to Baylor in 2002, he was a post-doctoral fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the Genome Annotation and System Modeling Group.
Research Interest
Dr. Baker research interests include areas of bioinformatics, data analytics, and distributed database design. He has published in areas of systems biology, functional genomics, and distributed analysis systems, where he has aided in the development of several large-scale analysis systems, including GeneWeaver.org and the MATRR resource. His research has been supported by NIH, NSF, DoE and DoD grants.
