Ajay N. Jain, PhD

Professor, Cancer Research Institute, Department of Laboratory Medicine, and Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences.

Member, UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center (Breast Oncology and Cancer Genetics Programs), Program in Quantitative Biology, and Graduate Program in Biological and Medical Informatics

Executive Committee, Biological and Medical Informatics Graduate Program

Director, Informatics Core, UCSF Cancer Center


Dr. Jain received his PhD in Computer Science in 1991 from Carnegie Mellon University working on computational methods for speech understanding. Following a brief period in the defense industry working on image processing and target recognition, Dr. Jain worked in a series of start-up biopharmaceutical companies on computational methods for structure-based drug design prior to joining the UCSF Cancer Center in 1999.


Visiting Scientists
Ann E. Cleves (Jain), PhD


Post-Doctoral Associates
James Langham, PhD


Graduate Students
We are considering adding some new PhD students at this time.


Former Lab Members
Former students:
Lawrence Hon, PhD, UCSF Biological and Medical Informatics (2005), now at 23andMe
Chris Kingsley, PhD, UCSF Biological and Medical Informatics (2005), now at TGen
Barbara Novak, PhD, UCSF Biological and Medical Informatics (2007), now at Agilent
Tuan Pham, PhD, UCSF Biological and Medical Informatics (2007), now at a stealth-mode startup here in the Bay Area

Former post-docs:
Jane Fridlyand, PhD, now at Genentech
Adam Olshen, PhD, now Associate Attending Biostatistician at Memorial Sloan Kettering
Taku Tokuyasu, PhD, now UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center Informatics Core Manager

Links
Dr. Bruno O. Villoutreix, Research Director, INSERM, www.vls3d.com

 

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