Madhavi Ganapathiraju

Madhavi Ganapathiraju

Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Intelligent Systems, University of Pittsburgh

Research Areas

Discovery of Protein Interactions
Translational BioinformaticsArtificial Intelligence
Collective IntelligenceImpact Prediction

Affiliations

Biomedical Informatics Training Program
Intelligent Systems Program
Integrated Systems Biology Program
Joint CMU-Pitt PhD Program in Computational Biology

News

  • 2024 Sep: Review paper describing our clincal trials of two repurposable drugs for schizophrenia is published in Biological Psychiatry!
  • 2024 May: Mesothelioma interactome paper published in BJC Reports
  • 2024 Mar: Paper published in Network Modeling Analysis in Health informatics and Bioinformatics!
  • Brandan carried out benchmark evaluation of State-of-the-art PPI algorithms! See his paper!
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Funding

  • BRAINS Award from National Institute of Mental Health, NIH (2011)
    Title: Discovery of Mental Health and Inflammation (MHAIN) Interactome
    Role: Principal Investigator
  • Supplement Grant to develop website to disseminate results of the BRAINS grant from National Institute of Mental Health, NIH (2012)
    Title: Discovery of Mental Health and Inflammation (MHAIN) Interactome
    Role: Principal Investigator
  • Subaward from National Mesothelioma Virtual Bank grant from National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) (2017)
    Title: Mesothelioma Interactome Prediction, Analysis and Dissemination (informal title to describe the scope of the project)
    Role: Faculty Investigator
  • Stanley Medical Research Institute grant to support clinical trial of repurposable drug based on our computational prediction (2018)
    Title: Chromoglycate adjunctive therapy for patients with schizophrenia
    Role: Co-Investigator
  • Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation grant (2019)
    Title: Genetic variants, pathways and drug targets of peritoneal mesothelioma
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
  • Stanley Medical Research Institute grant to support another clinical trial of repurposable drug based on our computational prediction (2019)
    Title: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Acetazolamide for Patients with Treatment Resistant Schizophrenia
    Role: Consultant
  • Supplement grant from National Library of Medicine, NIH, to redesign the curriculum of the doctoral training programi (2010)
    Title: Pittsburgh Biomedical Informatics Training Program
    Role: Co-investigator

Education

Carnegie Mellon University

Ph.D (Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science)

Thesis area: Application of statistical natural language processing techniques towards solving specific problems in biology: feature extraction and modeling for transmembrane helix prediction.

Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

ME (Int), Electrical Communications Engineering (ECE)

Delhi University

B.Sc, Mathematics, Electronics, Physics

Resources

Contact

Email:madhavi@pitt.edu
Phone:412-648-9552
Location:Department of Biomedical Informatics
5607 Baum Blvd Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Administrative Assistant: Linda Mignogna
Grants Administrator: Jesse Kummer