Principal investigator
Gerald A. Higgins
Research Professor, Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
Principal Investigator
Research
Research areas
- Pharmacogenomics
- Neuropsychiatric genomics
Background
Gerald A. Higgins, M.D., Ph.D., known in the lab as Gerry Higgins, is a Research Professor in the Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics at the University of Michigan Medical School. He has worked with the lab's principal investigator on pharmacogenomics research for over a decade, co-authoring thirteen publications between 2015 and 2021 on neuropsychiatric epigenomics, network pharmacology, and deep learning approaches to patient stratification. His earlier career spanned molecular neuroscience research at the National Institutes of Health, systems-biology consulting for DARPA, and pharmacogenomic assay development as Vice President of Pharmacogenomics at AssureRx Health.