Precision Medicine and the AI Revolution
About Dr. Trey Ideker
Trey Ideker, PhD, has served as a faculty member at UC San Diego since 2003, with current appointments in the Departments of Medicine, Bioengineering, and Computer Science and Engineering. Additionally, he holds leadership positions as Director or Co-Director of several federally-funded research centers, including the Cancer Cell Map Initiative, the Bridge2AI Functional Genomics Data Generation Program, and, most recently, an ARPA-H ADAPT Precision Oncology Center.
Ideker received BS and MEng degrees in Computer Science from MIT and a PhD in Genome Sciences from the University of Washington under Drs. Lee Hood and Dick Karp. He was then a David Baltimore Fellow at the Whitehead Institute before joining the UCSD faculty in 2003. He was named a Top 10 Innovator by Technology Review, received the 2009 ICSB Overton Prize, and is a Fellow of the AAAS, AIMBE and ISCB organizations. Ideker previously served as a member of the Board of Scientific Advisors to the NIH National Cancer Institute and National Human Genome Research Institute. He also serves on the editorial boards of Cell, Cell Systems, PLoS Computational Biology, and Molecular Systems Biology. Since 2020 he has been named a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher (top 1% by citations). Ideker has published >280 scientific articles to date, which have been cited a total of >119,000 times.