Dr. Sujoy Ghosh, PhD

Dr. Sujoy Ghosh is Professor and Director of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Core at Pennington Biomedical Research Center, USA. Dr. Ghosh obtained his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from University of Notre Dame, USA, and completed postdoctoral training at Duke University, USA. Prior to joining Pennington Biomedical, Dr. Ghosh was a Group Leader and Medical Genetics Advisor at GlaxoSmithKline, USA, a Senior Research Scientist and Director of Research at the Center for Translational Health Equality Research at North Carolina Central University, USA and an Associate Professor at the Center for Computational Biology at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. Dr. Ghosh’s research employs integrative bioinformatics and machine learning tools for investigating the genetic and genomic architectures underlying cardio-metabolic disorders, with a special focus on biological pathways and interaction networks, and with the goal of identifying and functionally validating novel disease gene candidates and biomarkers of disease processes. His lab collaborates extensively with national and international investigators for analysis and interpretation of complex datasets in diverse therapeutic areas. Dr. Ghosh has published over 140 peer reviewed articles and received competitive funding from the NIDDK, NIMHD, American Heart Association and Ministry of Education, Singapore.