Lana Garmire

Lana Garmire serves as Vice Chair of Research and professor in the biomedical informatics and data science department at the University of Alabama Birmingham Medical School. She began her career more than 23 years ago as a PhD student at UC Berkeley, where she transitioned from experimental science to bioinformatics and computational biology after earning a master's degree in biostatistics. Her research focuses on AI-driven biomedical data science for precision health and precision medicine, with notable contributions in multimodal data integration using deep learning approaches for patient outcome prediction and long-standing work in single cell spatial omics research. Garmire is a fellow of ACMI and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and she maintains memberships in AAAS and the International Society of Computational Biology. She also contributes as a reviewer for the Preeclampsia Foundation and serves on the editorial advisory board for Genome Biology.