Dr. Rachel Karchin

Professor,
Johns Hopkins University
Institute for Computational Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Oncology, Department of Computer Science.

Dr. Karchin received a BS in Computer Engineering (1998) and MS (2000) and PhD (2003) in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and did her postdoctoral work at the University of California, San Francisco in the Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences. Her lab develops algorithms and software to analyze genomic data and interpret its impact on cancer, the immune system and tumor evolution. She was a leader of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) PanCan Atlas Essential Genes and Drivers Analysis Working Group (2017-2018). Currently, she leads the TCR Profiling Group for the Break Through Cancer Data Science Hub and the OpenCRAVAT project, a large software platform for cancer mutation annotation, supported by the National Cancer Institute’s Informatics Tools for Cancer Research program.

Dr. Karchin was the Whiting School of Engineering’s William R. Brody Faculty Scholar from 2013-2019. She was inducted as a Fellow in the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers in 2017, received the AACR Team Science Award in 2020 (TCGA) and was appointed a Distinguished Graduate Alumnus of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at University of California, Santa Cruz in 2021.