Associate Professor
Department of Health Informatics
Program: Biomedical Informatics
Administrative Title: Associate Dean
Phone: (973) 972-5241
Email: amitrofa@rutgers.edu

Office location:
65 Bergen Street
Stanley S Bergen, Room 350
Newark, NJ 07107

About

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science, New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Post-Doctoral Training in Computational Oncology, Columbia University Cancer Center

Professional Achievements

NIH National Library of Medicine (NLM) R01 (R01LM013236) “Generalizable biomedical informatics strategies for predictive modeling of treatment response”. Role: PI, 2020 – 2024
American Cancer Society (ACS) Research Scholar Grant “Systems analysis of drug resistance in prostate cancer”. Role: PI, 2021 – 2025
New Jersey Commision on Cancer Research (NJCCR) “Scalable generalizable framework for predicting treatment response in prostate cancer”. Role: PI, 2021 – 2023

Research

My laboratory develops and clinically adopts computational algorithms to elucidate genomic, transcriptomic, and epigenomic mechanisms of disease progression and therapeutic response in cancer and other diseases, and identifies optimal treatment strategies for patients based on their molecular profiles and clinical characteristics.

Our goal is to build a multi-level panel of markers to predict patients’ risk of treatment resistance and provide personalized advice on their optimal therapeutic course.

Publications