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Christina Ramirez is a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her educational background includes a PhD in Statistics/Social Science from the California Institute of Technology, where she also obtained her Master's degree in the same field. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Economics Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests focus on understanding the mechanisms of HIV pathogenesis, with a particular emphasis on HIV drug resistance, mutation and recombination, and viral fitness. Christina collaborates closely with clinical investigators and applies advanced statistical methods to complex, high-dimensional data analysis, aimed at inferring relationships between virus genotype and phenotype. She has developed methods for interpreting evolutionary dynamics in relation to gene regions affected by selective pressure from the host immune system and antiretroviral treatments.
Department of Economics admits primarily for the PhD program.