Research Associate in Medicine

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Sanjay Mishra, MS, PhD is a Research Associate of Medicine at Brown University; and a Research Program Manager at Brown University Health. Sanjay coordinates the Center for Clinical Cancer Informatics and Data Science (CCIDS) and the COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium (CCC19). CCIDS as an inter-institutional center has a goal of promoting clinical cancer informatics research and operations across Brown University ecosystem, with focus on five “pillars”: 1) Content Standardization; 2) Clinical Integration; 3) Information Extraction; 4) Dissemination of new technology; and 5) Scholarship/Education. CCC19 is a consortium of over 120 cancer centers and other organizations across North America, who came together in March 2022 to collect data about patients with cancer who have been diagnosed with COVID-19. Sanjay's primary interest in data science is to understand the health care outcomes, disparities, hurdles on data access and data ethics. Previously, at Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, Sanjay worked on developing vaccine candidates against Zika and Dengue. He got his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in Chemical and Physical Biology, studying small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) for their role in the stress response and aging. Using protein engineering and CRISPR knockout strategies, his research on conserved roles for sHSPs among vertebrates uncovered that sHSPs have possibly evolved under the organellar and organismic proteostatic demands to protect against disease development and prevention of the aggregation of misfolded proteins. His research has also involved protein transporters, and vacuolar transport mechanisms. Sanjay frequently writes on popular science topics and his writings have been cumulatively read over 10 million times. He is a 2023 recepient of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications given by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

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