Marylyn Ritchie
Principal Investigator
512 Wartik Laboratory
Pennsylvania State University
Email: marylyn.ritchie@psu.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D. Statistical Genetics
Vanderbilt University
2004
M.S. Applied Statistics
Vanderbilt University
2002
B.S. Biology
University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown
1999
Honors, Awards, and Patents
2000-2002 NIH Breast Cancer Research Training Grant
2001 Vanderbilt University, Charles R. Park Student Travel Award
2002-2003 NLM Bioinformatics Research Training Grant
2002 Vanderbilt University Graduate School Travel Grant
2003 Vanderbilt University Dissertation Enhancement Grant
2002 U.S. Provisional Patent: Method and Apparatus for Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction
2003 U.S. Patent Pending: Method and Apparatus for Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction
2003 Vanderbilt University Graduate School Travel Grant
2003 Vanderbilt University, Charles R. Park Student Travel Award
Memberships in Professional Societies
American Statistical Association (ASA)
American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)
International Neural Network Society (INNS)
International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES)
International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ISGEC)
International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
Research Interests
Statistical Genetics
Genetic Epidemiology
Bioinformatics
Computational Biology
Cancer
Cardiovascular Disease
Hypertension
Schizophrenia
Diabetes
Pharmacogenetics