Dr Xu is a professor of Biomedical Informatics and founding Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Her research seeks both to reveal the mechanisms that underlie human diseases and discover new drug treatments to combat them. Dr Xu has unique cross-disciplinary training in biomedical sciences and computer engineering with broad research interests on drug discovery, disease mechanism understanding, human gut microbiome, health outcomes research, drug toxicity prediction, pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics, and post-market drug safety surveillance. Dr Xu is an elected Fellow of American Medical Informatics Association and recipient of The NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, the Landon-AACR (American Association for Cancer Research) Innovator Award for Cancer Prevention Research, and the AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association) New Investigator award.
Cleveland, OH, USA
Professor and Director, Center for Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery