{"id":1,"date":"2025-01-22T19:10:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T19:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mrivas.su.domains\/gbe\/?p=1"},"modified":"2025-01-23T16:19:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T16:19:36","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrivas.su.domains\/gbe\/uncategorized\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivas Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Rivas Lab is located in the Department of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Research in the lab<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We are focused on: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Developing methods for generating effective therapeutic hypotheses from human genetic data, <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Training disease risk prediction models from biomarkers and human genetic data, <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Building artificial intelligence tools for tumor boards, <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Optimizing computational algorithms by numerical and statistical strategies.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    I will post blog posts of recent <\/strong><\/em>research in my lab. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    A bit about the PI: <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    I was born in Managua, Nicaragua. I was trained in Mathematics<\/strong> (Course 18)<\/a> at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    There, I was trained by Prof. Richard M. Dudley whose research mainly focused on empirical process theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Plot of a Brownian Bridge.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

    While at MIT, I spent a great deal of time doing human genetics research with Dr. Mark J. Daly and Dr. David Altshuler. There, I had the privilege to work on Genome Wide Association Studies<\/em>, i.e. studies that try to link genetic variants\/mutations in the genome to diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    GWAS of a disease. On the x-axis is the position of the genetic variant in the genome. Y-axis the corresponding -log10(P value) for the variant after testing for association.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

    I obtained my DPhil (PhD)<\/a><\/strong> in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford. I was a Clarendon Scholar, Osler Award <\/a>winner, and supervised by Prof. Mark McCarthy and Prof. Peter Donnelly. My research focused on developing methods for rare variant association studies.<\/p>\n\n\n