Trupti Joshi, MS, PhD, MBBS

University of Missouri – Columbia (MU)

As the Director of Translational Bioinformatics with the School of Medicine – Medical Research Office at University of Missouri, I lead and coordinate the translational bioinformatics research and development activities through collaborations with clinicians and research faculty, for advancing informatics innovations and its application to precision medicine. I am a Core Faculty with MU Informatics Institute (MUII), Interdisciplinary Plant Group (IPG) and Department of Computer Science and have over 12+ years of experience working in academia, collaborations with multi-disciplinary researchers and several industry partners. My expertise is in the areas of bioinformatics and its application to plants sciences, animal sciences, biomedical sciences and health informatics. She has published more than 50 scientific papers, book chapters and co-developed several bioinformatics software systems and tools.
My current research focuses primarily on building biomedical knowledge base for genomics and mutli-omics data integration in clinical and biomedical domains, development of computational methodologies and data analysis pipelines using HPC resources and application of translational bioinformatics techniques towards advances in precision medicine and personalized medicine.