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Alejandro Schäffer trained to be a Computer Scientist focusing on the design, analysis, and implementation of combinatorial algorithms. Since joining the National Institutes of Health, he broadened his knowledge about genetics, immunology, and cancer by practical experience on dozens of collaborative projects, specializing in the analysis of sequence data and genetic marker data. At the National Cancer Institute (NCI), he is privileged to combine these disciplines and privileged to work under the guidance of Dr. Eytan Ruppin (Chief of the Cancer Data Science Laboratory) to analyze cancer data.
Dr. Schäffer is best known for leading the development of the genetic linkage analysis package FASTLINK and for doing the implementation of the PSI-BLAST module of the sequence analysis package BLAST. The paper first describing PSI-BLAST, along with other algorithmic improvements to BLAST published in 1997, is one of the 100 most cited scientific papers of all time. He has also carried out genomic data analysis as one member of large teams doing medical genetics studies, especially studies identifying genes, such as TNFRSF13B, HAX1, STK4 and IL21R that, when mutated, cause human primary immunodeficiencies.
In 1999, Dr. Schäffer co-authored one of the first papers in tumor phylogenetics, now an active area of research in cancer genetics. More recently he has been collaborating with Russell Schwartz at his alma mater, Carnegie Mellon, on newer problems in tumor phylogenetics. During 1998-2018, Dr. Schäffer had the opportunity to learn about some of the exciting research at NCI, by collaborating with the NCI laboratories/branches of Thomas Ried, Richard Simon, and Stephen O’Brien on cancer modeling and cat genomics, while formally working at the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Therefore, in 2018, he was suitably informed and excited to accept the offer to transfer to Dr. Ruppin’s Cancer Data Science Laboratory in NCI.
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Tamara Barna, Kálmán Ferenc Szűcs,Alejandro A. Schäffer, M. Mirdamadi, Judit Hajagos‐Tóth,Róbert Gáspár
Obstetric anesthesia digestno. 1 (2024): 32-32
CANCER RESEARCHno. 7 (2024)
NATURE CANCER (2024)
Parth Desai,Nobuyuki Takahashi,Rajesh Kumar,Samantha Nichols,Justin Malin,Allison Hunt,Christopher Schultz,Yingying Cao,Desiree Tillo,Darryl Nousome,Lakshya Chauhan,Linda Sciuto,Kimberly Jordan,Vinodh Rajapakse,Delphine Lissa,Yang Zhang,Suresh Kumar,Lorinc Pongor,Abhay Singh,Brett Schroder,Ajit Kumar Sharma,Tiangen Chang,Rasa Vilimas,Danielle Pinkiert,Chante Graham,Donna Butcher,Andrew Warner,Robin Sebastian, Mimi Mahon, Karen Baker, Jennifer Cheng, Ann Berger,Ross Lake,Melissa Abel,Manan Krishnamurthy,George Chrisafis,Peter Fitzgerald, Micheal Nirula,Shubhank Goyal,Devon Atkinson,Nicholas W. Bateman,Tamara Abulez,Govind Nair,Andrea Apolo,Udayan Guha,Baktiar Karim,Rajaa El Meskini,Zoe Weaver Ohler,Mohit Kumar Jolly,Alejandro Schaffer,Eytan Ruppin,David Kleiner,Markku Miettinen,G Tom Brown,Stephen Hewitt,Thomas Conrads,Anish Thomas
Cell Reports Medicine (2024)
Cancer Researchno. 6_Supplement (2024): 2263-2263
Cancer researchno. 6_Supplement (2024): 1615-1615
Genetics in Medicine Open (2024): 101616
Nishanth Ulhas Nair,Alejandro A Schaffer,E Michael Gertz, Kuoyuan Cheng,Johanna Zerbib,Avinash Das Sahu, Gil Leor, Eldad D Shulman,Kenneth D Aldape, Uri Ben-David,Eytan Ruppin
Cancer research (2024)
Sanju Sinha,Rahulsimham Vegesna, Sumit Mukherjee,Ashwin V. Kammula,Saugato Rahman Dhruba,Wei Wu,D. Lucas Kerr,Nishanth Ulhas Nair,Matthew G. Jones,Nir Yosef,Oleg V. Stroganov,Ivan Grishagin,Kenneth D. Aldape,Collin M. Blakely,Peng Jiang,Craig J. Thomas,Cyril H. Benes,Trever G. Bivona,Alejandro A. Schaeffer,Eytan Ruppin
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#Papers: 505
#Citation: 20531
H-Index: 67
G-Index: 141
Sociability: 8
Diversity: 0
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