Ritu Pandey, MS, PhD, MHM

Dr. Ritu Pandey’s interest is translational research utilizing data driven discovery of molecular markers by integrating molecular profiling, clinical observations, and study of drug induced changes in cells. Her research involves one, utilizing bioinformatics approaches to investigate predictive, prognostic and mechanistic biomarkers in tumor initiation, progression, and possible treatment to enable precision medicine and second data analytics and informatics to facilitate clinical interpretation of molecular alterations. The objective is to translate data into insights that advance understanding of biomarkers/therapeutic targets using translation and reverse translational approaches. Current lab focus is to study stratified patient populations for genome, transcriptome and immune markers in colorectal and pancreatic tumors. 

The research includes developing strategies and implementing infrastructure, applications and analytics for bioinformatics and AI solutions for biomedical data to support precision medicine research. She is leading the data management effort for a NIDDK grant, a national biorepository and resource for pituitary neuroendocrine tumor translational research. At UA, Dr. Pandey has launched an initiative for patient molecular registry, IMPACT, that hosts genomic profiling tests of Banner-UACC patients. She is the Associate Director of Translational and Clinical Bioinformatics at the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Biostatistics and leads the collaboration between multiple UA institutions to develop this platform to foster learning from patient data, enable genomically informed clinical trials and support molecular therapeutics. Dr. Pandey’s research is highly collaborative.

Dr. Pandey holds a MS and a PhD in Life Sciences from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India, and a Master of Healthcare Management from UA.