Rate My Professor Marina Sirota

Marina Sirota is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine and serves as Acting Director of the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute at UCSF. She earned a B.S. in Biomedical Computation, an M.S. in Biomedical Informatics, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics, all from Stanford University, completing her doctorate in 2010. Prior to her roles at UCSF, she worked as a Senior Research Scientist at Pfizer, where she focused on developing precision medicine strategies in drug discovery, and earlier as Lead Research Scientist in Systems Medicine at Stanford.

Dr. Sirota’s research centers on developing computational integrative methods and applying them to disease diagnostics and therapeutics, with particular emphasis on women’s health, preterm birth, endometriosis, Alzheimer’s disease, and related conditions. She leads the UCSF March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center and co-directs ENACT, a center focused on precision medicine for endometriosis. She is the founding director of the AI4ALL program at UCSF, which introduces high school girls to applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in biomedicine. Her laboratory has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, March of Dimes, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and Pfizer. In 2017, she received the AMIA Young Investigator Award. Dr. Sirota has co-authored more than 170 scientific publications and maintains active research programs in computational biology and bioinformatics.