PhD, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ohio University

MS, Applied Statistics, Purdue University

PhD, Chemical Biology, Nankai University (China)

Research Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine as of July 1, 2023 

PhD, Biomedical Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School

PMP (Project Management Professional), Project Management Institute

More information: linkedin.com/in/cheryl-l-gatto-phd-pmp-71985823

PhD, Bioinformatics, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Technology University

Jia Li's work at Vanderbilt included "Tuft cell heterogeneity in function, lineage, and structure in ideal inflammatory disease," "Combinatorial single-cell strategies for a Crohn's disease gut cell atlas," and "Mechanistic insights into histone deacetylase inhibition for the treatment of retinoblastoma."

Publications include "scMRMA: Single cell multiresolution marker-based annotation" (Nucleic Acids Research 2022)

Winner of the Best Poster award in the department's 20th anniversary poster session for "Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics clustering with an optimized adaptive k-nearest neighbor graph"

Cierra supports general operational assignments and various administrative and financial processes, including office operations, staff onboarding, procurement, space management, and special events coordination. She also serves as the departmental liaison to VUMC’s central procurement and disbursement offices, its facilities management department, and external business groups and service providers, and she is the administrative contact for Concur, travel arrangements, and our weekly seminar series.

MS, Biochemistry, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

PhD, Statistics, National Cheng Kung University

PhD, Biostatistics, National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan)

PhD, Engineering, Louisiana Tech University