Department of Community Medicine

Nancy Lan Guo, PhD

Lan Guo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Medicine and Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center.  She holds a B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Beijing University and a PhD in Computer and Information Science from West Virginia University.  Prior to joining WVU, Dr. Guo served as Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Southern Mississippi.  Her teaching interests include bioinformatics, gene microarray profiling, and personalized medicine.  Her research interests include algorithm development for bioinformatics and systems biology and clinical applications of gene and/or protein expression-based prognostic models for personalized cancer treatment.

Dr. Guo currently has R01 funding from the National Library of Medicine to develop a bioinformatics framework for individualized clinical decision making.

List of Publications

lguo@hsc.wvu.edu