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Cristina Correia, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Cristina Correia, Ph.D., Assistant Professor correia.cristina@mayo.edu

Cristina Correia is an Assistant Professor in Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at Mayo Clinic and works with Dr. Li's team in Systems Biology and Dr. Kaufmann's team in Ovarian Cancer, Lymphoma, and drug resistance mechanisms. This blend of interests is highly cooperative and dynamic and significant to advance the care for each individual patient.
Dr. Correia's research focuses on the fundamental problems that affect most patients during the management of disease: heterogenous responses to treatment, drug resistance, and acquired drug resistance that arises under the selective pressure of therapy. Specifically, she focuses on applied systems biology approaches using machine learning and artificial intelligence models to identify new makers of drug response with a desire to translate these findings as quickly as possible into the clinical practice.
Dr. Correia extensive works addressing cancer and drug mechanisms, omics, and omics integration (RNA sequencing, Whole Exome Sequencing, Methylation arrays, SNP arrays, RPPA, proteomics, SNP arrays, RPPA, genome wide shRNA and CRISPR screens, single cell omics).
Dr. Correia is an expert in network biology and development of innovative network tools, using machine learning and artificial intelligence systems perspectives tools to dissect cancers and aging diseases like NetDecoder, P-Map, RSI, PERMUTOR, and recently artificial neural network encoder -ANNE, and invariant stoichiometric gene associations -LIFE and SPIN-AI (submitted).
Dr. Correia is also passionate in training the next waves of scientists and has actively guided more than 20 Ph.D. level graduate students and M.D. Ph.D. students.
A list of her publications can be found here.