Suzanne Fei is an American

bioinformatics Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, in particular when the data sets are large and complex. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combi ...

analyst. Since 2017, she has directed a Bioinformatics & Biostatistics Core at

Oregon Health & Science University Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is a public research university focusing primarily on health sciences with a main campus, including two hospitals, in Portland, Oregon. The institution was founded in 1887 as the University of Oregon Medi ...

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. Fei was born in California and raised in Janesville, California, and later Coquille, Oregon. At birth she was placed for adoption by LDS Family Services. She was reunited with her birth mother, Brooke Hemming, while in graduate school. Her birth mother is also in the sciences as a Senior Physical Scientist with the

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. Fei is an advocate for

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Mormons and has served on the steering committee for

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and the ally committee for the organization Affirmation: LGBT Mormons, Families & Friends."Mormons Building Bridges Steering Committee"
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Career

Fei obtained degrees in

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...

and

biochemistry Biochemistry or biological chemistry is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms. A sub-discipline of both chemistry and biology, biochemistry may be divided into three fields: structural biology, enzymology and ...

from

Oregon State University Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant, research university in Corvallis, Oregon. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees. It has the 10th largest engineering co ...

and earned a PhD in

biomedical informatics Health informatics is the field of science and engineering that aims at developing methods and technologies for the acquisition, processing, and study of patient data, which can come from different sources and modalities, such as electronic hea ...

from Oregon Health & Science University. Her dissertation title is "Integrating Genetics and Proteomics to Study Alcohol-drinking Behavior." She is now the Core Director for the Bioinformatics & Biostatistics Core at the

Oregon National Primate Research Center The Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) is one of seven federally funded National Primate Research Centers in the United States and has been affiliated with Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) since 1998. The center is located ...

at Oregon Health and Science University.

Personal life

Fei is married to software engineer Yiyang Fei and they have a daughter and a son. She is a member of

the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is a Nontrinitarianism, nontrinitarian Christianity, Christian church that considers itself to be the Restorationism, restoration of the ...

and lives in Oregon.

Publications

Fei is listed as "Data Coordinator" as the fifteenth among the approximately 600 authors of the paper Raphael BJ, et al. Integrated genomic characterization of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. ''Cancer cell''. 2017 Aug 14;32(2):185-203, which has been cited 217 times according to

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Google Scholar author page . Accessed Aug. 5, 2019 Fei's most cited other publications are: *Fei SS, Wilmarth PA, Hitzemann RJ, McWeeney SK, Belknap JK, David LL. Protein database and quantitative analysis considerations when integrating genetics and proteomics to compare mouse strains. Journal of proteome research. 2011 May 9;10(7):2905-12. Cited 19 times according to Google Scholar *Kulesz-Martin M, Lagowski J, Fei S, Pelz C, Sears R, Powell MB, Halaban R, Johnson J. Melanocyte and keratinocyte carcinogenesis: p53 family protein activities and intersecting mRNA expression profiles. In ''Journal of Investigative Dermatology Symposium Proceedings'' 2005 Nov 1 (Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 142–152). Cited 17 times according to Google Scholar *Fei SS, Mitchell AD, Heskett MB, Vocke CD, Ricketts CJ, Peto M, Wang NJ, Sönmez K, Linehan WM, Spellman PT. Patient-specific factors influence somatic variation patterns in von Hippel–Lindau disease renal tumours. Nature communications. 2016 May 13;7:11588. Cited 13 times according to Google Scholar

References

External links

Bioinformatics & Biostatistics Core Website

Suzanne Fei Profile
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