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Edward Stites, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. His research focuses on the use of experimental and computational methods to understand and treat diseases, particularly cancer. Stites completed his undergraduate studies in Mathematics at the University of Kentucky, followed by a dual MD/PhD program at the University of Virginia, specializing in biophysics. His doctoral research centered on RAS proteins, which are vital in various cancers. He has developed mathematical models of RAS signaling and has contributed to personalized medicine through his postdoctoral fellowship at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), where he was a Randy Pausch Scholar. Stites relocated his lab to Yale University in 2022, further advancing interdisciplinary research in computational biology and systems biology. His research interests encompass computational biology, machine learning, oncogene and proto-oncogene proteins, signal transduction, synthetic biology, and translational research.
Yale School of Medicine • New Haven, CT
Research and teaching in the Department of Laboratory Medicine.
Translational Genomics Research Institute •
Conducted research in cancer genomics and systems biology.
Washington University School of Medicine •
Completed clinical training in Clinical Pathology.
Salk Institute for Biological Studies •
Research combining experimental and computational methods.
Administered via the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). GRE General is optional for PhD.